![]() ![]() Newton was elected to the Chair after his anni mirabiles of 1666. This proto-calculus set the scene for his brilliant successor: Isaac Newton. His “method of tangents”, though, was seen as ground breaking at the time. Sadly, Barrow’s early ardour for mathematics had waned by the time he took up the Chair in 1663. The first Lucasian Professor, Isaac Barrow, held both the Regius Professorship of Greek and Gresham Chair in geometry. It also has the unusual distinction of having been held by a famous – though fictitious and wholly artificial person – Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Data, in the series’ final episode, “ All Good Things…”. Theoretical physicist Michael Green (2009 to 2015).Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking (1979 to 2009) and most recently,.Physicist and mathematician George Stokes (1849 to 1903).Mathematician and computing pioneer Charles Babbage (1828 to 1839).Astronomer George Biddell Airy (1826 to 1828).Physicist and mathematician Issac Newton (who held the chair from 1669 to 1702). ![]()
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