According to its website, the Institute "runs research programmes on selected themes in mathematics and the mathematical sciences with applications in a very wide range of science and technology. It attracts leading mathematical scientists from the UK and from overseas to interact in research over an extended period."
In 1993, British mathematician Andrew Wiles announced his (flawed) proof of Fermat's Last Theorem at the Institute. His proof was later corrected, by himself.
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Isaac Newton Institute website (http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/)
IsaacNewton was born in Lincolnshire, near Grantham, on December 25, 1642, and died at Kensington, London, on March 20, 1727.
IsaacNewton is popularly remembered as the man who saw an apple fall from a tree, and was inspired to invent the theory of gravity.
Newton was forced to leave Cambridge when it was closed because of the plague, and it was during this period that he made some of his most significant discoveries.
IsaacNewton was born in the manor house of Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire.
Newton explained a wide range of previously unrelated phenomena: the eccentric orbits of comets, the tides and their variations, the precession of the Earth's axis, and motion of the Moon as perturbed by the gravity of the Sun.
Newton was at the height of his standing - seen as a leader of the university and one of the most eminent mathematicians in the world.
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