A Concise History of Mathematics

Running Head : Isaac Newton

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Introduction

Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist and astronomer . Newton was one of the greatest scientific geniuses of all time . He formulated the basic laws of mechanics and gravitation and applied them to explain the workings of the solar system - to the satisfaction of scientists for more than two centuries . Although modern physics has modified some of Newton 's principles , his findings are still considered valid in most situations . They form the basis of what is called Classical , or

br Newtonian , physics . Newton 's contributions to optics and mathematics were also of major and lasting importance (See Newton , Sir Isaac New Standard Encyclopedia

Early Life of Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe , Lincolnshire , where his family owned a small estate . His father had died before his birth and his mother soon remarried . Newton , raised by an aged grandmother , developed solitary nature at an early age (Westfall , 1981

Newton entered Trinity College at Cambridge University in 1661 and received a Bachelor 's degree in 1665 . He had planned to continue his studies at Cambridge that year , but the university was closed during 1665-66 due to an epidemic of bubonic plague and he returned home . In the following two years , Newton studied on his own , gaining many of the insights that formed the basis of his later discoveries . He formulated the binomial theorem (a mathematical principle ) and invented both the differential and integral calculus in this period . Gottfried and...