Isaac Newton Scientist and Mathematician

Isaac Newton scientist and mathematician

A Mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, physicist, and theologian, Isaac Newton is one of the most influential scientists within our history. In Woolsthrope England in 1642, the same year of Galileo's death, Isaac Newton was born. In 1661 he moved to Cambridge to attend Trinity College in which after his first three years he was elected a scholar. Unfortunately as a result of the plague running wild within Europe in 1665 the school was forced to close its doors for a period of two years.

It was during this period that Isaac Newton returned home to England and began to look at problems concerning physics and mathematics. During that same year he also began to first comprehend the theory of optics and the theory of gravitation. He also developed many ideas about integral and differential calculus; however, in his earlier work he was always highly reluctant to print anything publically causing a large gap between the time of his discoveries and the time of his contributions to the math community.

After a period of two years, in 1667 Isaac Newton decided to return to Cambridge to work on alchemy. A year later his attention was drawn to a book published by Micolas Mercator which dealt with methods of infinite series. After realizing his more extensive comprehension in the subject, he finally published his own book called De Analysi which displayed a wider range of results in the topic. De Analysi became a breakthrough for Newton into the mathematician world, showcasing his capabilities in this area.

During the early 1670s, Newton began working in the field of optics leading to his first invention and design which made him well recognized in another field. During Newton's time period, astronomy was severely hampered. As lenses in current telescopes broke some light into unwanted colors, Newton developed a solution to the somewhat unclear resulting view. Discovering that color is an outcome of objects...