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| =[[Life of Isaac Newton]]=
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| ==== '''Biographical Data''' ====
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| Born: December 25, 1642 in Woolsthorpe, England
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| until 1658 - School at Grantham
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| 1661 - Left for Cambridge University
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| 1665 - Forced to leave Cambridge in because of the plague
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| 1666 - Stays in Woolsthorpe and begins to develop his most famous insights
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| 1667 - Returned to Cambridge
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| 1669 - Became a part of faculty
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| Offered post of warden of the Mint in 1696
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| 1670-1671 - Composed Methodis fluxionum - his main work on the calculus
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| 1687 - Published first edition of Principia
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| 1689-1690 and 1701-1702 - member of parliament for the university in
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| 1703 - President of Royal Society
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| Died: March 20, 1727, in London, England
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| ==== '''Personal Life''' ====
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| Father died before Newton was born, mother left him when he was 3, grew up at grandmother's;
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| Introverted, insecure;
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| Very protective of his privacy (only few manuscripts from his boyhood and undergraduate years);
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| Incapable to accept other brilliant minds - e.g. campaign to destroy Leibnitz;
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| Psychological problems - nervous breakdown in 1693: paranoia, depressions
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| ==== '''Academic focus''' ====
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| ====='''Optics'''=====
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| He denied the homogeneity of light, stating that it was complex and heterogeneous.
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| ====='''Gravity and Mechanics'''=====
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| Every 2 objects attract each other such as planet and the Sun, or Earth and the Moon, "attract each other with a force that depends on the porduct of heir masses and falls off the square of their distance apart."
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| ====='''Mathematics'''=====
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| Fundamental work in the calculus;
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| classical and analytic geometry;
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| finite differences;
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| classification of curves;
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| methods of computation and approximation;
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| probability
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