ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Isaac Newton
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Hugely influential English all-rounder famous for:
- Inventing calculus, independently of Leibniz.
- Successfully providing a mathematical model for the force of gravity;
- Formulating the Principle of Conservation of Momentum and Principle of Conservation of Angular Momentum;
- Building the first practical optical reflecting telescope;
- Developing a theory of colour based on the splitting of light with a prism;
and much more.
It is suspected nowadays that he may have had Asperger's syndrome.
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Nationality
English
History
- Born: 25 December 1642, Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
- Died: 20 March 1727, London, England
Theorems and Definitions
Mathematics
- Newton's Method for approximating the zeroes of a function
- General Binomial Theorem
Physics
- Newton (unit of force)
- Newton's Laws of Motion
- Newton's Law of Cooling
- Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
- Principle of Conservation of Momentum
- Principle of Conservation of Angular Momentum
Books and Papers
- c. 1664: Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae (Certain Philosophical Questions)
- 1671: Method of Fluxions
- 1684: De Motu Corporum in Gyrum
- 1687: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (usually referred to as the Principia)
- 1704: Opticks
- 1707: Arithmetica Universalis
Also see
- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics (1937): Chapter $\text{VI}$
- Isaac Asimov: Understanding Physics (1966)
- George F. Simmons: Calculus Gems (1992): Chapter $\text{A}.18$
