Sir Isaac Newton life Sir Isaac Newton, he was a mathematician and physicist, one of the best scientsts of all time. He was born in Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, where he went to school. He entered Cambridge University in 1661. He was chosen to be a Fellow of Trinity College in 1667, and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1669. He stayed at the university, lecturing in most years, until 1696. Of these Cambridge years, Newton was at a …
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…Newton made extensive use also of analogous geometrical arguments. Late in life, Newton expressed regret for the algebraic style of recent mathematical progress, preferring the geometrical method of the Classical Greeks, which he regarded as clearer and more rigorous. So basically as a mathematician, Newton invented integral calculus, and with Leibnitz, they invented differential calculus. He also calculated a formula for finding the velocity of sound in a gas which was later corrected by Laplace.