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Last time, we met Blais Pascal, the child prodigy who invented the calculator at 19,

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co-founded probability theory, and then abandoned mathematics for religion.

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Today, we meet another kind of genius, one who hoarded his discoveries,

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feuded bitterly with rivals, and yet changed the world more than any scientist before or since.

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Welcome back to Men of Mathematics.

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Today we enter the era of calculus with Isaac Newton,

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the most influential scientist in history

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and one of the strangest personalities ever to dominate mathematics.