Sir Isaac Newton is a well-known mathematician, and debatably, the greatest physicist that has ever lived. He has accomplished many things like his three laws of gravity, discovering the behavior of light, and creating calculus, to better understand the world around us (The Doc). Although many people disapproved Newton’s ideas, nevertheless, he continued to pursue what he loved despite the negativity received from other scientists or philosophers. Some might think that Newton had a fairly easy life considering he was highly intelligent, yet Newton had to face obstacles and had to overcome them. His life will show how Isaac Newton developed from a young man to an incredible physicist.
Isaac Newton was born January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire,
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He lived with a local apothecary, and developed a fascination for chemistry. After a short time, Isaac’s mother pulled him out of school. She hoped that he would become a farmer like his father. But Isaac found farming boring and useless, so he was eventually sent back to finish his basic education. In later years, Newton’s uncle, a graduate from the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College, convinced Hannah to enroll Isaac into a university. Under the influence of his uncle, Isaac enrolled into a similar school in 1661. He earned money for his tuition by waiting on tables, and cleaning classrooms occupied by wealthier people (“Isaac …show more content…
He generalized the binomial theorem, and showed that sunlight is made up of all the colors of the rainbow, by using two prisms to separate and recombine the light. Newton invented calculus, the mathematics of change, so we can understand the behavior in objects as tiny as electrons. He also discovered the law of gravitation, proving that the moon orbiting the earth is the same force that causes an apple to fall from a tree, this discovery lead him to publish the Principia. In it he uses mathematics to explain gravity and motion. This also lead him to create his three laws of motion, which is the foundation to any science of movement. More of his achievements include proving that all objects in space under gravity must follow a path shaped like a circle, ellipse, or a parabola. Isaac showed that the tides are caused by gravitational interactions between the earth, the moon, and the sun, and predicted that the earth is not a perfectly sphere, but an oblate spheroid. Lastly, he used math to understand the movement of fluids, built the first reflecting telescope, and devised Newton’s Method for finding the roots of functions (The