Quantitative Reasoning Project The Story of Isaac Newton.

I choose Issac Newton

Quantitative Reasoning
Project
The Story of Isaac Newton

Early life
• I was born In Wool Thorpe in Lincolnshire England to a single mother and
grew up with the support of my grandmother.
• I had my basic education in the local schools before moving to Cambridge
where I undertook my bachelor’s degrees and later on masters’ study.
• My early life was filled with curiosity and love for science which prompted
me to venture into research very early in life.

Inspiration
• My innovations in science were greatly inspired by my curiosity attributes in life.
• The curiosity gave me the necessary motivation that I needed to conduct several
researches and come up with a number of scientific theories.
• Scholars such as Galileo and Kepler did motivate me to dig deeper into science.
• The work of scholars like Copernicus, Boyle and Bacon also did add value to my work.

Contributions to mathematics
• My first contribution to mathematics was in calculus where I defined integration as the
inverse of differentiation.
• I did apply the use of differentiation to find the slope of an instantaneous point of a curve.
• My other contribution was the discovery of the generalized binomial theory which was
applied in the algebraic expansion of binomial power.
• Another mathematics contribution derived from my work was the theory of finite
differences.

Cont.’
• I did discover a method of obtaining accurate approximations to the zeros of the
polynomials using the infinite power series.
• In physics, I added more knowledge in optics and other physics theories like the
gravitational force of motion.
• My research also did expound on color properties such as its intrinsic property to light.
• Scientific research I conducted proved that objects color arise as a result of their
interaction with colored light.

Recognition
• My work was never recognized at the early stage by my parent, but only after being
convinced by my uncle to allow me go back to college instead of being a farmer.
• My college did discover my special talent in science and even went ahead to
sponsor my studies. Later on the mathematics community identified my work and I
was even lucky to serve as the chairman of the society.
• Currently several theories and principles that I discovered are being applied both in
education and industries to make innovations that are improving life.

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• Whiteside, D., 1970. The Mathematical principles underlying Newton's
Principia Mathematica. Journal for the History of Astronomy, p. 116–138.