Isaac Barrow
Isaac Barrow
Isaac Barrowwas an English Christian theologian and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus; in particular, for the discovery of the fundamental theorem of calculus. His work centered on the properties of the tangent; Barrow was the first to calculate the tangents of the kappa curve. Isaac Newton was a student of Barrow's, and Newton went on to develop calculus in a modern form. The lunar crater Barrow is named after...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMathematician
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Men do truly more render themselves despicable than others when, without just ground, or reasonable occasion, they do attack others in this way.
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That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
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It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
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An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.
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Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.
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