Most people know of Isaac Newton as one of the world's foremost mathematicians and physicists.

Listeners of this podcast might also know that he was inadvertently responsible for the creation of the gold standard.

Yet there is another part of Isaac Newton that most people are not aware of, a part of him that was very much not a scientist.

Learn more about Isaac Newton and his fascination with alchemy on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. It is hard to express just how important Isaac Newton was.

He single-handedly developed the basics of modern physics.

He put the entire field of science on a firm footing by describing how motion, light, and

gravity all work.

And on top of that, he developed an entire branch of mathematics on which pretty much every

other advanced science is dependent.

Almost the entire discipline of engineering uses

calculus for the creation of almost everything that we use. If you remember back to my

episode on the gold standard, it was inadvertently created when Isaac Newton was the head of the Royal Mint, so he also had a major impact on the global economy.

Several years ago, I once came across a book that attempted to rank the most important people in the history of the world.

As you would suspect there were tons of philosophers and political and religious leaders on the list.

However, the person they ranked number one was Isaac Newton. I previously also did an episode on how many

fantasy Nobel Prizes Newton would have won if Nobel Prizes had been given out when he was

alive. I came up with 10, which is 8 more than anyone else has ever won.

And if you remember back to my episode on the Brakista Krone problem,

some of Europe's greatest mathematicians took months to solve the problem

that Newton figured out in a single evening. So in summary,

Isaac Newton was a really smart guy who laid the foundation for all of modern science and mathematics.

But here's the thing.

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