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In October in the 1630's Isaac Barrow was born in, and died May 4, 1677.Isaac Barrow was an English Christian Theologian.Dr.Barrow was born in London.He studied mathematics.What I think are the most interesting and important fun facts about Isaac Barrow was that he was the first to calculate the tangents of the curve."Barrow was the only child of this union''." Isaac Barrow also was the tutor of Isaac Newton.'' "His lectures were delivered in 1664,1655, and 1666 were published in 1683 under the title Lectiones Mathematics.''This was mostly based on mathematical truth. Isaac Barrow also doesn't have a middle name.In 1662 he was made the professor of geometry of Gresham College." His earliest work was the Elements of Euclid.''

Isaac Barrow was most famous for being the first to find the integral of the secant function in closed form.He's been a teacher since 1662."He was a royal mandate in 1670.In 1657 he published an edition of data''.Isaac died in the 1677s.This all took place in London. Isaac got very far with his life, and he will never be forgotten for what he did. Without tangents in science, we wouldn't know where we would be.
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