ISAAC NEWTON
By: Kimberly and Mike
ISAAC NEWTON
oWas born in England
on December 25, 1642
oDied on March 20,
1727
3 FUN FACTS
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Newton was also highly religious. He was an
unorthodox Christian, and wrote more on Biblical
hermeneutics and occult studies than on science
and mathematics, the subjects he is mainly
associated with. Newton secretly rejected
Trinitarianism, fearing to be accused of refusing
holy orders.
Newton studied for a degree in law.
He was elected as Member of Parliament for the
University in 1700, but only held this for a year.
NEWTON’S EDUCATION
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He attended Cambridge College where he studied law.
His mother refused to pay for his college so while at college
he worked as a servant to pay his way.
Newton was also educated at The King's School, Grantham
(where his alleged signature can still be seen upon a library
window sill). He was removed from school, and by October
1659, he was to be found at Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth,
where his mother, widowed by now for a second time,
attempted to make a farmer of him. He hated farming.
Henry Stokes, master at the King's School, persuaded his
mother to send him back to school so that he might
complete his education. Motivated partly by a desire for
revenge against a schoolyard bully, he became the topranked student.
MATHEMATICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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Newton's work has been said "to distinctly advance
every branch of mathematics then studied”.
Newton is generally credited with the generalised
binomial theorem, valid for any exponent. He
discovered Newton's identities, Newton's method,
classified cubic plane curves (polynomials of degree
three in two variables), made substantial
contributions to the theory of finite differences, and
was the first to use fractional indices and to employ
coordinate geometry to derive solutions to
Diophantine equations. He approximated partial
sums of the harmonic series by logarithms (a
precursor to Euler's summation formula), and was the
first to use power series with confidence and to revert
power series.
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His discoveries in mathematics were just as
important. He came up with the Binomial Theorem
and was one of the two creators of calculus. These
discoveries represented a quantum leap in the fields
of math and science allowing for calculations that
more accurately modeled the behavior of the universe
than ever before. Without these advances in math,
scientists could not design vehicles to carry us and
other machines into space and also plot the best and
safest course. Calculus gave scientist the tools to set
up a theoretical model of a situation and still account
for varying factors. This basic knowledge would help
scientist such as Einstein to be able make even
greater discoveries such as the Theory of Relativity
and Nuclear Fission.
TIMELINE
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1642-1651 England's Civil Wars 1653-1658 Oliver
Cromwell in power 1658-1659 Richard Cromwell in
power 1660 English monarchy is restored 1666 Great
Fire of London 1685-1688 Rule of James II (Catholic)
1689-1702 William of Orange rules (after Glorious
Revolution) 1707 Union between Scotland and
England under the name of "Great Britain" 1777
American Revolution 1778 Alliance between United
States and France 1781 Signing of the Constitution of
the United States 1789 Outbreak of hostilities in
France with the fall of the Bastille July 14
Abolition of French feudal system, Declaration
of Rights of Man 1792 French Revolutionary Wars
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REFERENCES
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http://wiki.english.ucsb.edu/index.php/English_1
02:_Timeline_1642-1798
http://www.universetoday.com/38643/what-didisaac-newton-discover/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton