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Isaac Barrow
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Isaac Barrow was an English mathematician and theologian who lived from 1630 to 1677 and made important contributions to both fields during a pivotal period in the history of science. His work in mathematics helped lay groundwork for calculus, while his theological writings were influential in Protestant Christian thought of his era.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 39
Top works
- The duty and rewards of industry considered
- Pope's Supremacy
- Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow; Volume 1
- Of contentment
- Theological Works of Isaac Barrow, D. D. ; Volume II
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Group
- Origin
- Greensboro
- Active from
- 2009-10
Discography
- Being Without2011
- Though I’m Alone2013
- Aquamarine2024
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- 1
- Total plays
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
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- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,648x
- Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018
· 2018 · cited 5,848x
- Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
· 2012 · cited 5,835x
- Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,511x
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Quotes
- “Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.”
- “Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.”
- “An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.”
- “Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.”
- “Among these Ways, or any other whatever, of generating Magnitudes, the Primary and Chief is, that perform'd by local Motion, which all of them must in some Sort suppose, because without Motion, nothing can be generated or produced and therefore this must first be considered. The following Axiom of Aristotle concerning Motion is famous... He that is ignorant of Motion, must necessarily know nothing of Nature... in Nature every Thing created is produc'd by Motion, or certainly not without Motion.”
- “What Mathematicians Chiefly consider in Motion is the Mode of Lation or Manner of bearing, and the Quantity of the motive Force. ...But because the Quantity of motive Force cannot be known without Time, we must say something concerning its Nature.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Isaac Barrow (October 1630 – 4 May 1677) was an English Christian theologian and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus; in particular, for a proof 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. He is also notable for being the inaugural holder of the prestigious Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a post later held by his student, Isaac Newton.
Life
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