Friday, 12 May 2017

Newton vs Leibniz

Some yrs after inventing calculus in he decided to publish his work on mathematics which was totally about the calculus. He divided the calculus in two basic parts the first is 'Differential calculus' and the second is 'Integral calculus'. This introduction of these new concepts change the world of mathematics entirely. However his introduction of calculus was protested by Leibniz who was too a mathematician. He claimed that Newton stole his work on calculus. He argued that he was the first who developed calculus not the Newton. At those times there were no such sort of court, government so the case of Leibniz was taken under the 'Royal Society' which was established by royal peoples of that time. Interesting point in the story is not that the case was sent to the royal society the interesting fact is that the Head of that royal society was Newton himself. Actually with the majestic discovery of Calculus made him the Head of the society. So it usual that the decision would not be in the favor of Leibniz. For a long time the case go on and this period unfortunately Leibniz died and Newton was given the credit to inventing the calculus

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