Newton’s Method Introduction Sir Isaac Newton is famous for many discoveries in both math and science. From gravity to calculus, Newton made many fundamental breakthroughs that have shaped thought for centuries and are still in use today. For this reason, Newton has always been one of the most interesting characters in history for me and thus is why I found such great interest in his theories and being able to explore them further. However, though he had countless monumental breakthroughs, he also had other theories that are not as well known, which interested me even more as they are not discussed as much in school. One such theory is Newton’s method for approximating the zeroes of a function, which is simply known as Newton’s Method. This method is a unique approach for approximating zeroes due to its use of several iterations of a formula to slowly grow closer and closer to the zero. The aim of this paper is to investigate the use and accuracy of Newton’s Method to approximate the zeroes of a function. This investigation aims to explore the history of the method and possible influences to Newton’s discovery, the basic mechanics of the method such as how and when it works, and finally Newton’s method will be compared to the most conventional means of determining the zeroes of function which are the algebraic formulas like the quadratic formula. History Although it was Newton who would eventually be credited with the discovery of a method for finding the roots of a
Coincidentally, he was born almost one year to the day after Galileo died. Newton was able to complete the new scientific theories and mathematics for motion that validated the work of Copernicus and Galileo. Newton entered Cambridge University as a student in 1661, despite a difficult childhood. Copernicanism and Cartesianism were not officially being studied because of the lack of scientific proof and verification. They were, though, very much debated in academic circles. Newton was able to use Descartes’s work in mathematics to develop his skill, and by 1669 had invented calculus. In 1667, Newton won a fellowship at Cambridge and became a mathematics professor in 1669. As a professor, he devoted much of the next decade working on optics. This was critical in order to test Descartes’s corpuscular theory of matter. In the 1680s, Newton withdrew from much of much interaction with other scientists. His difficult temperament had resulted in a very heated exchange with a colleague. During this time, he studied alternative theories about matter. His early studies had been influenced by Cartesian theory, as well as the Neo-Platonists. Newton proceeded to study alchemy and Hermetic tracts, imagining possible explanations for the behavior of matter, especially those that Cartesian corpuscular theory could not explain. He didn’t know what
Newton along with Galileo had a huge impact of Scientific Revolution because he helped shape it in powerful ways. Newton developed a physical law that has become known as Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation. In scientific jargon, the law states, ‘any two bodies in the universe attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them’ Another major contribution made by Newton was the formulation of the Laws of Motion. Newton created three of them. Newton's’ first law recognized Galileo’s concept, this law is often referred to as the term of inertia. ELABORATE AND
The general and widespread acceptance of Sir Isaac Newton’s models and laws may often be taken for granted, but this has not always been so. Throughout history, scientists and philosophers have built on each other’s theories to create improved and often revolutionary models. Although Newton was neither the first nor the last to bring major innovations to society, he was one of the most notable ones; many of his contributions are still in use today. With the formulation of his laws of motion, Sir Isaac Newton contributed to the downfall of Aristotelianism and provided a universal quantitative system for approximating and explaining a wide range of phenomena of space and the physics of motion, revolutionizing the study and understanding
Descartes theory regarding clockwork universe inspired others to further investigate the countless mysteries in nature. By 1687, Isaac Newton developed his Principia Mathematica, which astounded the scientific community. Newton was successful in devising simple principles to describe a massive quantity of occurrences in the natural world, using
Newton’s writings have had a profound effect on modern day science, astronomy, physics, as well as scientific reason. His discoveries and laws set a foundation of universal guidelines that enabled others to conduct experiments based on their own observations, while he also explained how the natural world functioned. In his ‘Principia’ he listed his set of four rules of scientific reasoning. The four rules include: 1) we are to admit no more causes of natural things such as both true and sufficient to explain their experiences. 2) The same natural effects must be assigned to the same causes. 3) Qualities of bodies are to be esteemed as universal. 4) Propositions deduced from observation of phenomena contradict them (wolframresearch). This method of reasoning set the framework for the quest of answers during the Enlightenment. Today his four laws are known as the scientific
Newton Minow’s challenge is to sit down and watch something on television without any other distractions – that would include your phone. Can you do it? The fact is that everyone is capable of such a simplistic task, yet no one in this day in age would do it unless they didn’t have a choice. Take away our phones, laptops, tablets, bribe us with money, or hold a gun to our head. Then we’ll watch the show with our full undivided attention, but the point is in our society it you’re hard pressed to find someone who gives all of their attention to the television with no other distractions. Another point to that though is how important is any of that programming anyway? As Minow called it, “the vast wasteland” isn’t something needed since it doesn’t actually inform viewers about anything of value.
The Enlightenment was a period in time where many new ideas and discoveries were being found. Specifically in science, during the age of Enlightenment, there were a lot of changes that changed the history of it. From the 17th century all the way to the 19th, one of the most significant discoveries were the advances in the study of Astronomy. Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Johannes Kepler were some of the most important astronomers from the enlightenment and they greatly helped with the advancement of science. These astronomers helped create and refine telescopes, described and defined how gravity worked, and created different kinds of star charts.
Isaac Newton demands that science can be proven in all philosophy. His goal is to reject all religious and occult qualities that are said to be in philosophy. Using his mechanics, physics, and mathematic skills, Newton wants to reject religious causes and so that he may only have scientific and mathematical proof of scientific methods. In order to have a scientific method, he creates three rules that explain his reasoning in philosophy.
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Father of gravity, calculus, and the color spectrum, Sir Isaac Newton was, and still is, the single most important figure in scientific history. Born in 1642 to a poor farming family, Newton did not have a knack for farming and was sent to Cambridge where he studied Mathematics. This was short lived however, as Cambridge later closed due to the plague. However, only after Cambridge closed did Newton make some of his most significant discoveries (Weisstein, n.d.), which also included his most well-known discovery: gravity. It is commonly thought that Newton was sitting under an apple tree when an apple fell on his head to which he questioned why the apple did not float into space, however this is likely embellished as the location and date of
Sir Isaac Newton started at The King’s School, soon dropped out, then later admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge. This is where he accomplished most of his famous work. Newton’s Laws of Motion became the founding principles of mechanics. Newton’s accidental seeing of the apple falling from the tree is known to all. This observation is what led to the discovery of the gravitational force. Newton was the one to show that the gravitational force extends across the Earth. This theory led him to the calculation of the orbital period of the moon. In 1665, Newton invented the generalized binomial theorem. Afterwards, he worked on the development of a mathematical theory that became the infinitesimal calculus, which impacted the math world as an important branch of mathematics. Newton also discovered a method for finding approximations of a real-valued function. Some say he basically laid the foundation of modern calculus. Later, in the 1670’s Newton discovered that a prism can decompose white light into a spectrum of colors. Along
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This study was later disregard because Newton was leading these study's that slandered Leibniz. This fact caused a bitter rivalry between these two and it lasted until Newton met his grievous end in 1716. is given the credit of creating the generalized binomial theorem,that is able to be used by any valid exponent. He discovered Newton's identities, Newton's method, classified cubic plane curves(polynomials of degree three in two variables), made substantial contributions to the theory of finite differences, and was the first to use fractional indices and to employ coordinate geometry to derive solutions to Diophantine equations. He approximated partial sums of the harmonic series by logarithms (a precursor to Euler's summation formula) and was the first to use power series with confidence and to revert power series. Newton's work on infinite series was inspired by Simon Stevin's decimals. A very useful modern account of Newton's mathematics was written by the foremost scholar on Newton's mathematics, D.T. Whiteside or Tom Whiteside. Tom Whiteside translated and edited all of Newton's mathematical writings and at the end of his life wrote a summing up of Newton's work and its impact. This was published in 2013 as a chapter in a book edited by
Isaac Newton was born in a time were a lot of ideas and concepts were being discovered but he discovered one of the
In order for Newton to have discovered the mathematical genius of calculus, he first tried to understand the world around him through physical science. As a result he formulated the famous and well-known Three Laws of Motion, which looked to explain the effect of gravity on falling objects and how objects react with each other. To explain his theories of motion and gravity, Newton came up with calculus, which provided a method to find the change in an objects position and velocity with respect to time. Furthermore, Newton studied a vast amount of work by past prominent mathematicians. Through his extensive research and brilliance he realized that the earlier approaches to finding tangents to curves and to find the area under curves were actually inverse operations of each other and through seeing this relation, he formed the basis of calculus to answer his thoughts about the natural world. Differential calculus was one of his most important findings and is described by the Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia as providing a, “method of finding the slope of the tangent to a curve at a certain point; related rates of change, such as the rate at which the area of a circle increases (in square feet per minute) in terms of the radius (in feet) and the rate at which the