Research Paper On Isaac Newton

Isaac newton is undoubtedly considered one of the greatest mathematicians to ever grace the earth. He evolved mathematics in ways nobody else's thought was possible. In my opinion, he is one of the most defining mathematicians of all time.

Sir Isaac newton was born on 1/4/1943 in the United kingdom. He was the son of a local prosperous farmer, also named Isaac Newton, who died three months before he was born. At age three, Isaac’s mother then remarried a minister, leaving him in the care of his grandmother. Newton was reunited with his mother at age twelve, after her second husband died. He was enrolled in King’s School of Grantham, where he lived with an apothecary. This was the first time Newton was introduced to chemistry. His mother removed him from the school to become a farmer, but he disliked
farming and failed. He later went back to the school to continue his education. After completing his basic education, Isaac Newton wanted to continue learning at Cambridge. At the university, Newton investigated his interest is advanced sciences, and he studied the works of modern philosophers. Newton was attending the university during the time of the scientific revolution, when many new discoveries about the universe were being made. Through his hard work, he won the title of scholar, which gave him funding for studies for four years. The Great Plague returned to Europe, forcing the university to close, and Newton to return home, and study in private. During his time at home, he created his method of infinitesimal calculus, set foundations for his theories of light and color, and gained insight on the laws of planetary motion. He returned to the university when it reopened in 1667, when the plague disappeared. He received his master of arts degree in 1669. Newton was also elected a fellow of Trinity, proving that he was an established person at the school, and extremely influential. Between 1689 and 1680, and later in between 1701 and 1702, Newton served on the Parliament of England for Cambridge University. Because of his political service, Newton was the second scientist to become knighted, after Sir Francis Bacon. After a very successful, meaningful life, Sir Isaac Newton died in his sleep.

Isaac Newton made enormous contributions to mathematics.
He studied calculus for a large portion of his life. Newton realized the slope of a curve was constantly changing, and there was no effective equation to calculate the tangent line to the curve at any given point. A slope at a particular point had to be approximated by taking the average slope of smaller segments of the curve. Newton, with the help of Gottfried Leibniz, calculated a derivative function f ‘(x). This gives the slope at any point of a function f(x). It was a much quicker method than the one previously being used. This process of calculating the slope or derivative of a curve or function is called differential calculus. Newton tended to call it the “method of fluxions” and the instantaneous rate of change at a point on a curve the "fluxion", and the changing values of x and y are the “fluents". Having established the derivative function for a particular curve, it is then an easy matter to calculate the slope at any particular point on that curve, just by inserting a value for x. In the case of a time-distance graph, for example, this slope represents the speed of the object at a particular
point.