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Sir Isaac Newton was a brilliant man born in Lincolnshire, England on the day of Christmas. His father died three months before; Isaac was not expected to survive. When Isaac was about three years old his mother remarried a wealthy clergyman from another village, and they soon went to live there, and they left Isaac with his Grandmother. After the clergyman died, Isaac’s mother came back after eight years bringing with her, her three small children. Two years afterwards He went away to a grammar school in Grantham, were he became fascinated with chemicals. He was supposed to come home at age seventeen to look after the farm (but he was a total failure at being a farmer).

His mother’s brother was a clergyman who was an undergraduate at Cambridge University, tried to persuade his mother to let Isaac go to the university so when sixteen sixty one came around he went to Trinity College. Isaac paid his own way through college for his first three years by waiting tables and cleaning rooms for the faculty and the richer students. In sixteen sixty four, he was elected a scholar, promising four years of support in financial aids. Unfortunately, a plague was spreading rapidly across Europe, and finally reached Cambridge in summer sixteen sixty five. The University then closed and Isaac went home, and spent two years concentrating on mathematics and physics.

He returned to Cambridge in sixteen sixty seven to work on alchemy but then in sixteen sixty eight a man named Nicolas Mercator published a book about some methods for dealing with infinite series. Newton immediately wrote a formal exposition correcting Nicolas’s work. His friend and also mentor Isaac Barrow transferred these discoveries to a mathematician in London, and after some weeks Newton would allow his name to be shown. This step got the attention of the mathematics community for the first time. Afterwards, Barrow quit his professorship at Cambridge so that Newton could have the seat.