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Slandered Leibniz: The Contributions Of Isaac Newton

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Sir Isaac Newton was an english physicist and mathematician who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. He was born December 25 1642 in Lincolnshire England to his father also know as Isaac Newton who had died three months before and died March 20 1726 in Kensington England and is resting at Westminster Abbey. Newton went to The King's School Grantham from the age of twelve to the age of seventeen, this school taught Latin, Greek, and had an average mathematics division. Hannah Ayscough, his mother, later removed him from the school after widowing for the second time in her life and soon made a farmer of Newton, which he hated. The headmaster of King's School …show more content…

This study was later disregard because Newton was leading these study's that slandered Leibniz. This fact caused a bitter rivalry between these two and it lasted until Newton met his grievous end in 1716. is given the credit of creating the generalized binomial theorem,that is able to be used by any valid exponent. He discovered Newton's identities, Newton's method, classified cubic plane curves(polynomials of degree three in two variables), made substantial contributions to the theory of finite differences, and was the first to use fractional indices and to employ coordinate geometry to derive solutions to Diophantine equations. He approximated partial sums of the harmonic series by logarithms (a precursor to Euler's summation formula) and was the first to use power series with confidence and to revert power series. Newton's work on infinite series was inspired by Simon Stevin's decimals. A very useful modern account of Newton's mathematics was written by the foremost scholar on Newton's mathematics, D.T. Whiteside or Tom Whiteside. Tom Whiteside translated and edited all of Newton's mathematical writings and at the end of his life wrote a summing up of Newton's work and its impact. This was published in 2013 as a chapter in a book edited by

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