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Isaac Newton was created in a stone farmhouse in fatherless, 1642 and unwanted by his mom. When he died in London in 1727 he was so famous he was offered a situation funeral—an unheard of recognition for a topic whose accomplishments were in the realm of the mind. Throughout the years he was an irascible existence at Trinity College, Cambridge, Newton thought qualities of character and offered them names—mass, seriousness, velocity—things our technology today takes for granted. Impressed by Aristotle, spurred on by Galileo’s breakthroughs and the idea of Descartes, Newton understood the intangible and dared to get its measure, a jump of your brain unmatched in his generation.James Gleick, the writer of Chaos and Guru, and among the most acclaimed science writers of his era, gives the audience into Newton’s reclusive existence and offers amazingly clear explanations of the ideas that changed forever our understanding of systems, relaxation, and motion—ideas therefore fundamental for the twenty first century, it may certainly be said: We're all Newtonians.