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Newton mathematician biography
Isaac Newton
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Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
London, England
He laid the foundation for differential and integral calculus. His work on optics and gravitation make him one of the greatest scientists the world has known.
Biography
Isaac Newton's life can be divided into three quite distinct periods.The first is his boyhood days from 1643 up to his appointment to a chair in 1669.
Isaac newton mathematician biography
The second period from 1669 to 1687 was the highly productive period in which he was Lucasian professor at Cambridge. The third period (nearly as long as the other two combined) saw Newton as a highly paid government official in London with little further interest in mathematical research.
Isaac Newton was born in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire. Although by the calendar in use at the time of his birth he was born on Chr