![]() In 1669, he completed his MA and became a Lucasian professor of mathematics, at age of 26. Newton returned to Cambridge, in April 1667 and was elected as a fellow of Trinity, in October 1667. In August 1665, Newton get his BA degree, and soon after Cambridge University temporarily closed as a precaution against the Great Plague. He discovered the generalized "binomial theorem" inġ665 and began to develop calculus. Newton got his scholarship in 1664, which was for four years until he could complete his master's. Newton was ready to matriculate, By June 1661, but he was older than the other undergraduates because of his interrupted education.ĭuring the first three years at Cambridge, Newton was taught the standard curriculum but was fascinated with the more advanced science. On the recommendation of his uncle, " Rev William Ayscough" Newton was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge. Since He could not bring himself to concentrate on farming, he was again sent to a grammar school in Grantham. When his stepfather died, his mother pulled him out of school to make him a farmer because she thought that Newton should manage her now considerable property. Newton enrolled in king's school in Grantham, Lincolnshire. When Newton was twelve years old his stepfather passed away. ![]() His mother had three children from her second marriage. ![]() When Newton was about three, his mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton, married a minister, Barnabas Smith, and went to live with him, leaving young Newton with his motherly grandmother. His father Isaac was a prosperous local farmer and was died three months before Newton's birth. When Newton was born he was very weak and thus was not expected to survive. He was the only child of his parents Isaac and Hannah Ayscough Newton. ![]() Isaac Newton was born on 04 January 1643 (old-style 25 December 1642) in woolsthorpe, Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England. Parents: Hannah Ayscough, Isaac Newton Sr.Died: 31 March 1727, Kensington, London, United Kingdom.Born: 4 January 1643, Woolsthorpe Manor House, United Kingdom. ![]()
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