Isaac Newton's Accomplishments

Sir Isaac Newton can be most commonly known as the guy who came up with the concept of gravity when an apple fell on his head as he was sitting under a tree. He was born on January 4, 1643 in Lincolnshire, England and later on died in London, England on March 3, 1727. Although Newton was known as a brilliant man, his childhood education days proved otherwise, there were school reports that conveyed him as being inactive and careless. When he was about ten years old, he started school at the “Free Grammar School in Grantham.” Later on Newton was withdrawn from school, but after some time, William Ayscough, his uncle, made the decision that Newton should finish his schooling and prepare for college. Then in 1660, Newton returned to the “Free
Grammar School in Grantham” to complete his education. There he was staying with the headmaster of the school, Stokes in which he proved himself to be worth of academic success, despite of his previous school reports. Although Newton was showing signs of progression in his academic studies, it seemed as if his mother had to be persuaded into letting him attend a university. In addition to Stokes playing a role in getting Isaac back into learning and furthering his education, he was the one who introduced Isaac to Euclid’s Elements.
Furthermore, on June 5, 1961 Newton began going to college at “his uncle’s old college, Trinity College Cambridge.” Money was of no issue to his mother and even then Isaac became a sizar, which “was a student who received an allowance toward college expenses in exchange for acting as a servant to other students.” His family life wasn’t all that great, Newton never got along with his step dad and his mom so much so that he stated, “ Threating my father and mother Smith to burn them and the house over them.” It was clear that he didn’t have much family support, being that his mother always had to be convinced of letting Isaac go back to school and to continue onto college and beyond.
Although it is not clear, there is no specific evidence to prove who or what led Newton “to he most advanced mathematics,” except for his own interest and curiosity in mathematics and science. He wanted to know how things worked, and he wanted to think for himself and just analyze things on his own to make up his own conclusions and
ideas.
In addition to his upbringing and early childhood, Newton went on to discover mathematical ideas and foundations that would be known around the world.
Foundations such as “differential and integral calculus” which is related to his “method of fluxions.” Moreover, he came up with “simple analytical methods” that could be applied to solving irrelevant problems by “finding areas, tangents, the lengths of curves and the maxima and minima of functions.” Newton was important to mathematics, because he was able to come up with ways of solving problems and new mathematical ideas that are being used today, his unique way of thinking and passion for learning mathematics and how it works led to him becoming a genius before he was 30 years old. (Math example related to Isaac Newton found in the next
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Similarly, Newton’s mathematical contribution is important till this day, because it is through his foundations that subjects such as Geometry can be solved using his methods. He not only paved the way for others to look up to him and admire the great mind that he had and how he looked for ways to always improve. Mathematics was the first thing that had made an impact in his life and he went on to learn and read more of math so that he was able to fully understand. Which is the reason for math being taught today in schools, the reason why math had advanced and was looked at in a different light. His mind was able to come up with all of these methods by himself simply by studying and examining mathematics from a different perspective. There have been so many improvements and discoveries due to Newton’s genius mind and approach to mathematics.
Sir Isaac Newton, made an impact on the world and left a legacy behind that could not be matched with his age and the time in which he founded such mathematical ideas. It was,
A great treasure for a Mathematician to be possess’d of so fruitful and so general a Theory; ‘twas a still greater glory to have been the inventor of a Theory so surprising and ingenious; and ‘twas natural for Sir Isaac Newton, when he saw by Mercator’s Book, that he was upon the right pursuit, and that others might follow him in it, to have laid open his treasure at large, and secur’d to himself the right of property, arising form the discovery.
Although most people credit Newton to his major works in science and physics, he too made a strong impact in the mathematical world.