Calculus – Newton vs. Leibnitz

• First known steps – ancient Greece

  • Zeno’s paradox; Archimedes

• Newton wrote a tract (circulated among mathematicians) in 1666

  • First clear statement of the fundamental theorem of calculus

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646 - 1716)

  • From a poor familyChild Prodigy
  • Famous German Mathematician and Philsopher
  • Invented Calculus 1674-5; published 1684 – Controversial whether he had seen Newton’s work

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