death_date nationality birth_date academic_advisors alma_mater death_place influences image_size footnotes image name caption birth_place field known_for work_institution religion notable_students article_title
4 may 1677 english october 1630 james duport university of cambridge london , england gilles personne de roberval vincenzo viviani 200px his , but barrow really learned his mathematics by working under mentor gilles personne de roberval in paris and vincenzo viviani in was florence . james duport who was a classicist isaac barrow.jpg isaac barrow isaac barrow -lrb- 1630 -- 1677 -rrb- london , england mathematics fundamental theorem of calculus , optics university of cambridge , gresham college anglican isaac newton isaac barrow

isaac barrow

isaac barrow -lrb- october 1630 -- 4 may 1677 -rrb- was an english christian theologian and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus ; in particular , for the discovery of the fundamental theorem of calculus .
his work centered on the properties of the tangent ; barrow was the first to calculate the tangents of the kappa curve .
isaac newton was a student of barrow 's , and newton went on to develop calculus in a modern form .
the lunar crater barrow is named after him .
