Question

write the history and contribution of your favorite mathematicians.

Answer 1

We start our list with Sir Isaac Newton, considered by many to be the greatest scientist of all time. There aren't many subjects that Newton didn't have a huge impact in — he was one of the inventors of calculus, built the first reflecting telescope and helped establish the field of classical mechanics with his seminal work, "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica." He was the first to decompose white light into its component colors and gave us the three laws of motion, now known as Newton's laws. (You might remember the first one from school: "Objects at rest tend to stay at rest and objects in motion tend to stay in motion unless acted upon by an external force.")

We would live in a very different world had Sir Isaac Newton not been born. Other scientists would probably have worked out most of his ideas eventually, but there is no telling how long it would have taken and how far behind we might have fallen from our current technological trajectory.