Last time, we met Blais Pascal, the child prodigy who invented the calculator at 19,
co-founded probability theory, and then abandoned mathematics for religion.
Today, we meet another kind of genius, one who hoarded his discoveries,
feuded bitterly with rivals, and yet changed the world more than any scientist before or since.
Welcome back to Men of Mathematics.
Today we enter the era of calculus with Isaac Newton,
the most influential scientist in history
and one of the strangest personalities ever to dominate mathematics.