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Sir Isaac Newton was born in Lincolnshire, England, on December 25, 1642, and passed away in Kensington, London, on March 20, 1727. Newton was sent to school at a near town and returned home at the age of 14 to work and learn the business of his family’s farm, but spent most of his time creating experiments and solving problems. His mother noticing his interest in education, decided to send him to Trinity College in Cambridge.
Here, he practiced and sharpened his mathematical and sciences skills on his own though with some difficulty. In 1665 Newton obtained his BA and shortly after had to move to Lincolnshire due to a plague that took place in Cambridge. It was during his time at home where Newton was at the peak of his creative persona; where he thought of the fundamental principals of gravitation, as well as the completion of fluxional calculus. While at home, he also devised some instruments for grinding lenses to various forms other than spherical, thus decomposing solar light into various colors. In 1667 Newton was elected Fellow of Trinity College and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1669. Newton went on to live single until his death on 1727.