Newton

My name is Isaac Newton, I was born January 4, 1643 (OS: December 25, 1642) on a farm in Woolsthorpe, England. I currently reside in London where I m presently working as a comptroller (a person that supervises the cash flow in an organization). As a young boy I was educated at The King’s School in Grantham. I attended that school from the age of about 12 until I was 17. I unfortunately had to stop attending the school because my mother wanted to make a farmer out of me. I of course did not like the idea but went forth with my mother’s wishes. Thankfully, Henry Stokes, the head director of The King’s School, persuaded my mother to allow me to go back to school and finish my education. I was able to achieve many academic accomplishments in that school which later helped me flourish later on in life.            

I was then accepted to Trinity College in Cambridge so that I may further my education. In 1665, at the age of 23, I was able to come up with a binomial theorem and began to develop a mathematically theory. I was able to obtain a degree from that school that same year. Unfortunately, as a precaution to the Great Plague, the university closed down.             I can honestly say I had somewhat of a great influence in the mathematical world. I was after all, the first to use power series and be able to revert them as well. I also found a new formula for calculating pi and was the first to use fractional indices and to employ coordinate geometry to derive solutions to Diophantine equations. In 1969 I was proud to be elected Lucasion Professor of Mathematics. Yet due to my religious stance, I was in conflict with the requirements of that title, so I argued that I should be exempt from this and Charles II agreed to my argument, which of course led to conflict between my religious views and Anglican orthodoxy.           

For about two years, in 1670 until 1672, I worked by lecturing others on optics. I was able to inform them on my discoveries on light. Light is able to be refracted into a spectrum of different colors. From this work I was then able to make a telescope which allowed me to view things without having the dispersion of light into colors, thus, enabling people to view a clear image, not a distorted one.            

I also played a role in the world of mechanics, and still play a role since my theories have since lived on. I was able to come up with my three laws of motion. The three laws of motion consist as the law of inertia, F=MA (where acceleration is dependent upon the net force acting on an object and inversely related to its mass), and action and reaction. I was also capable to discover the force of gravity.                  

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