Assertion: newton | /r/CapableOf | make substantial contributions
Facets:
value: to the theory of finite differences
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: He discovered Newton's identities, Newton's method, classified cubic plane curves (polynomials of degree three in two variables), made substantial contributions to the theory of finite differences, and was the first to use fractional indices and to employ coordinate geometry to derive solutions to Diophantine equations.