"In his treatise of 1736 he was the first to explicitly introduce the concept of a mass-point particle and he was also the first to study the acceleration of a particle moving along any curve."
I liked this quote because its crazy to think about how his mind could wonder to find the "mass point" of a particle something so small. Its also crazy because he would have had to be very dedicated in order to stick to even getting close to finding some that could lead him to a point where he could teach others about and how to get to the point he did finding the mass point.
In a way he is very interesting I would die to hear the stories of how of some of his inspiration and most famous work came about. He couldn't of one day just woke up and thought that he should find the mass point of a particle , or how a hollow surface made with then rubber makes the surface smoother. These are kind of randomly picked in my book, its not like in math class when my teacher writes something on the board "unknown" like dividing zero by zero makes me wonder why that is unknown and impossible so far, but the thought leaves as soon as it comes then I'm on to thinking about the next thing. But he stuck with a thought enough to get some answers from it and I think that's amazing.
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