Sir Isaac Newton And Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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logic.

Sir Isaac Newton is the other major figure in the development of Calculus. He
was an English mathemetician and physcist, whose considered to be one of the
greatest scientists in history. Newton was born on December 25, 1642 at
Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire. He attended Trinity College, at
the University of Cambridge. He received his bachelor's degree in 1665 and
received his master's degree in 1668. However, there he ignored much of the
universities established curriculum to pursue his own interests: mathematics and
natural philosophy. Almost immediately, he made fundamental discoveries in both
areas.

Newtons dicoveries was made up of several different things. It consisted of
combined infinite sums which are known as infinite series. It also consisted of
the binomial theorem for frational exponents and the algebraic expression of the
inverse relation between tangents and areas into methods that we refer to today
as calculus.

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