He was appointed Master of the   Mint and success- fully prosecuted counterfeiters, resigning his post at Cambridge to concentrate on that work.
This man classi ed 72 of the 78 species of cubic curves, and names a set of identities relating power sums to symmetric polynomials. This mathematician received special permission not to take holy orders upon receiving a professor- ship. He names a theory of color stating that objects' color comes from their interaction with light. He was appointed Master of the   Mint and success- fully prosecuted counterfeiters, resigning his post at Cambridge to concentrate on that work. This man published a work in which he advanced a corpuscular theory of light, and he also discovered the generalised binomial theorem. For ten points, identify this English mathematician and physicist who names three laws of motion.
This man classi ed 72 of the 78 species of cubic curves, and names a set of identities relating power sums to symmetric polynomials.
Sir Isaac Newton