Sir Isaac Newton When deciding on the list of the greatest mathematicians in history, one name that is sure to come up is Isaac Newton. Newton made several important discoveries in the fields of mathematics and physical science, and in doing so changed the direction is which the sciences of dynamics, optics and mathematics were all going at the time. Newton was a master of science and mathematics, and he refused to think like everyone …
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…one would say he was disorganized, but everything was in order in his mind. Isaac Newton died in 1727, but without him modern mathematics and sciences would be very different from what we know. He is responsible for some of the most important ideas in history. Despite his downfalls everyone now considers him to be a great man that was blessed with an astonishing mind and as you can see his briliance out weighed his incompitance.