Isaac Newton

        ISAAC NEWTON

             Isaac Newton was born prematurely on December 25, 1642, to Isaac and Hannah Newton. His father had died two months before his birth. Even though his life had started with an uncertain future for him, he was a man whose thoughts came to life and seemed his brain never cease to rest. He was a man who changed the world with life’s works with the forerunner discovery being calculus.

             Isaac Newton was an English physicist and mathematician. He is one of the greatest scientists of all time. H was very interested in the discoveries of Galileo and others. He thought the universe worked like a machine and that a few simple laws governed it. He was one of the world’s greatest scientists because he took his ideas and the ideas of earlier scientists and combined them into a unified picture of how the universe works.

          Through mathematics, he formulated laws of motion and gravitation to explain the workings of the universe. These laws are formulas that explains how the objects move when a force acts on them. Principia, was his most famous book, published in 1687 while he was a mathematics professor at Trinity College, Cambridge.

            He formulated the classical theories of mechanics and optics. He also invented calculus, years befor Leibniz. However, he did not publish his work on calculus, until afterward Leibniz had published his. Newton discovered that the binomial theorem was valid for fractional powers, but left it for Wallis to publish (which he did).