ISAAC NEWTON

 ISAAC NEWTON

(1642-1727)

Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England on December 25, 1642, and died on March 20, 1727, at the age of 85 (Ruiz M, 2004).

He was an English physicist, philosopher, inventor, alchemist, and mathematician.

He was the son of a peasant couple whose father died three months before he was born and his mother left him in charge of his grandparents because his stepfather did not love him.

Due to this he had a complicated childhood, for which Newton did not return to his native village until the death of his stepfather in 1653.

During his childhood and youth he was an introvert, with few friends, in addition to showing little interest in studying, never lacking intelligence, curiosity and imagination.

At the age of 12 he was studying elementary school at Grantham Elementary School. And in 1661, at the age of 18, he entered Trinity College at the University of Cambridge to study mathematics under Isaac Barrow.

“After graduation (four years later), Newton devoted himself entirely to the study of mathematics and natural philosophy, making momentous discoveries in the field of calculus (he developed integral and differential calculus, among other findings), in physics (he described the laws that explain the motion of macroscopic bodies) and optics (theory of colors). " (Shamey, 2015)

Of all his studies and discoveries, his work stands out (Storr, 1985) “« Mathematical principles of natural philosophy »(Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica), published in 1687, in which he laid the foundations of modern physics and engineering through of his laws of motion and the theory of gravity, marking a before and after in the history of science ”(today it is still widely considered the most influential work in the history of physics).

He is also the author of the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, where he described the universal law of gravitation and established the foundations of Classical Mechanics through the laws that bear his name.

He is the inventor of the reflecting telescope, discoverer of Newton's binomial formula.