This book provides a thrilling history of the famous priority dispute between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton, presenting the episode for the first t

A blow-by-blow account of the celebrated controversy over the invention of the calculus.

Now regarded as the bane of many college students' existence, calculus was one of the most important mathematical innovations of the seventeenth century. But a

The Newton vs. Leibniz calculus controversy is a significant chapter in the history of mathematics, one that continues to captivate scholars and enthusiasts ali

Leibniz's dispute with Newton over the physico-mathematical theories expounded in the Principia Mathematica (1687) have long been identified as a crucial episod