ir Isaac Newton was a British physicist and mathematician, who is often considered to be one of the greatest, most influential scientists in history. Newton made countless contributions to many fields of mathematics and science, most notably physics. His theories, laws, and discoveries paved the way for much of the progress in science. Newton was also one of the creators of a type of mathematics, known today as calculus. He also solved many of the mysteries associated with optics and light, wrote the three laws of motion, and, from them, he came up with the universal law of gravitation. Newton was born 25 December. 1642, near Grantham in Lincolnshire. When Newton was three years old, he was placed in the care of his grandmother. Later on, he was sent to …show more content…
The Fluxional Method was Newton's first major achievement in mathematics. He generalized the methods being used to draw tangents to curves and to calculate the area swept by those curves. He saw that the two procedures were inverse operations. By joining them in what he called the fluxional method, Newton developed, in 1666, a new kind of mathematics that is known as calculus. Calculus was a new, powerful tool that carried modern math beyond the level of Greek geometry. Optics was another area that piqued Newton’s interest. In trying to explain why colors occur, he concluded that sunlight is a homogeneous mixture of different colors, each of which represents a different color. He also stated reflections and refractions cause colors to appear by separating light into its components. Newton demonstrated this color theory by passing through a prism a beam of sunlight, which decomposed the white beam of light into the colors of the rainbow. In August of 1684, Newton was visited by the British astronomer and mathematician Edmund Hillary, who, with Newton, discussed the problem of orbital