Isaac Newton
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| When was Newton born? | January 4, 1643
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| Where was Newton born? | Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth Lincolnshire, England
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| When did Newton die? | March 31, 1727
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| What is Newton's nationality? | English
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| What is Newton's alma mater? | Trinity College Cambridge
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| Who does Newton share the credit for the development of differential and integral calculus with? | Gottfried Leibniz
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| Newton demonstrated the binomial theorem. What is the binomial theorem? | Describes the algebraic expansion of powers of a binomial.
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| 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.
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| What is another name for Newton's Method? | Newton-Raphson Method
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| Newton contributed to the study of ______ _______. | Power Series
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| List at least three of Newton's other achievements. | Achievements include:
Newtonian Mechanics, Universal Gravitation, Optics, Infinitesimal Calculus
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| 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.
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| "Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things." Who said this? | Isaac Newton
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| "This most beautiful system [the universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being." Who said this? | Isaac Newton
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| “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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