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I would like to take a mathematics course with Pierre de Fermat. The course would focus on problem solving in various topics such as calculus and algebra. An analytical look at how to approach equations and numbers will be used to help students when they are trying to prove their own theorems in the future. Although Fermat is more of an amature mathematician, The greatest amateur mathematician he possessed the creative mind which was able to contribute to the creation of calculus way before many who are credited with discovering it were even born. In his time he might have been considered a lawyer much more so than a mathematician, but his mark in history will always be in his advancement of modern calculus.
My name is Isaac Newton. I am a scientist of all kinds of study, such as physics, mathematics, optics, and alchemy, among others. I have advanced the knowledge and understanding in those fields of study greatly and am perhaps more responsible for the evolution of science in the past 400 years than any other person.
I was born in 1642 on Christmas day in Lincolnshire, England. At the age of 12 I went to The King’s School, Grantham until my graduation at the age of 18.
In 1661 I began my study at Trinity College, Cambridge and completed my degree in April of 1665. During my study I became interested in the general binomial theorem and began work on my own mathematical ideas, which later became known as calculus. Due to the great plague, the next two years I returned home to study on my own in which I researched some of the topics I am better known for. One of which, the principle of gravity, came from an apple falling from a tree and hitting me on the head. In 1667 I returned to Cambridge to complete my masters degree and eventually gained a position as professor of mathematics at the age of 27.
In my major work, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, known by most as principia, I had published many of my ideas. In it I introduced universal law of gravity and my laws of motion, both in the mathematical and physical sense. In mathematics I am credited with creating calculus, although Gottfried Leibniz has also claimed that he had discovered it at the same time. In optics I have discovered properties of the reflection and refraction of light. In 1703 I was made the President of the Royal Society, an academy of sciences in the United Kingdom.
I believe that God has designed a universe that should be explored and understood. For this reason I have dedicated my life to doing just that.
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