Sir Isaac Newton

Background and EducationIsaac Newton was born on 4 January 1643 in England. Newton’s birthday was recorded as Christmas Day

Newton died on March 20, 1727 in London

From the age of twelve Newton went to The Kings School, Grantham

In June 1661 he was admitted in Trinity College

Made a huge impact on mathematics and physics

Contributions to math

He’s famous for analytical geometry of drawing tangents to curves (differentiation) and defining areas bounded by curves (integration). Not only did Newton discover but he discovered general methods of resolving problems of curvature, embraced in his "method of fluxions" and "inverse method of fluxions

Contributions to math con’t

In 1665, he discovered the generalized binomial theorem and began to develop a mathematical theory.

The method of fluxions

Invented calculus

Contributions to math con’t

Principia published in 1687

During two to three years of wok he prepared Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy commonly known as the Principia, although this was not published until 1687.

Opticks in 1704

Opticks established itself, from about 1715, as a model of the interweaving of theory with quantitative experimentation.

My opinion

In my opinion I think Newton was a great mathematician because of all his contributions to all the different math fields

Sources

http://www.newton.ac.uk/newtlife.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Early_life

http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu/anecdotes/newton.html

Sir Isaac Newton