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1) Isaac Newton was born in 1642 and attended Cambridge University where he made several major discoveries in mathematics and physics between 1665-1666 while the university was closed due to plague, including developing calculus and his laws of motion. 2) Though limits were implicit in the work of ancient Greek mathematicians, Newton was the first to explicitly discuss the concept of limits. However, his formulation of limits lacked clarity. 3) In the 19th century, Augustin-Louis Cauchy made the definit
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