Isaac Newton
Name: Sir Isaac Newton Born: December 25, 1642, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England Death: March 20, 1726 (Age: 84) Computer-related contributions English mathematician and physicist. Known for Universal gravitation, Calculus, Newtonian mechanics, Principia Newton’s method and Optics Binomial series. Built the first practical reflecting telescope. Significant publications Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687). Honors and awards Second scientist to be knighted, after Sir Francis Bacon (1705). Fellow of the “College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity” (1667)....