Isaac Newton Contributions to Science

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Imagine you need to measure the area of a weird shape. Or track a planet zooming through space. Without Newton, you’d be stuck using a ruler and crying. So he invented calculus. Yes, invented it.

Well, sort of. German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz also came up with it around the same time. Cue the biggest nerd fight in history. But Newton’s version is why you had to suffer through derivatives in high school. You can blame him for that, but also thank him for making modern engineering possible.

Calculus lets us calculate how things change—speeding cars, growing bacteria, stock market crashes. It’s the math of “what if?”

渡辺 美咲

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