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Isaac Newton
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When was Newton born? | January 4, 1643 |
| Where was Newton born? | Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth Lincolnshire, England |
| When did Newton die? | March 31, 1727 |
| What is Newton's nationality? | English |
| What is Newton's alma mater? | Trinity College Cambridge |
| Who does Newton share the credit for the development of differential and integral calculus with? | Gottfried Leibniz |
| Newton demonstrated the binomial theorem. What is the binomial theorem? | Describes the algebraic expansion of powers of a binomial. |
| Newton developed Newton's Method. What is Newton's Method? | Method for finding successfully finding better approximations to the roots of a real value function. |
| What is another name for Newton's Method? | Newton-Raphson Method |
| Newton contributed to the study of ______ _______. | Power Series |
| List at least three of Newton's other achievements. | Achievements include: Newtonian Mechanics, Universal Gravitation, Optics, Infinitesimal Calculus |
| What is Calculus? | The part of mathematics concerned with finding slopes of curves, areas under curves, minima and maxima, and other geometric and analytic problems. |
| "Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things." Who said this? | Isaac Newton |
| "This most beautiful system [the universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being." Who said this? | Isaac Newton |
| “Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.” Who said this? | Bob Barker |
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