Sir Isaac Newton

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Sir Isaac Newton

     Sir Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642 in Woolsthorpe, near Lincolnshire.  He was a famous mathematician and physicist who made many contributions in the progress of science.  Newton, along with Gottfried Leibniz invented the branch of math called calculus.
     In the summer of 1661, he was sent to Trinity College at the University of Cambridge where he received his bachelor's degree.  In 1667, he returned there, after taking two years off, and got his master's degree.
     Newton's first major achievement was in mathematics.  He generalized the methods that were being used to draw tangents to curves and to calculate the area swept by curves, and he saw that the two procedures were inverse operations.  By joining them in what he calls the fluxional method, he developed calculus.  Although Newton invented calculus he didn't introduce it to Europe.  In 1675, Leibniz figured the same thing and told Europe about calculus.  Newton was always afraid of criticism and publicatio...

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