LEIBNIZ VS NEWTON. TO. THE. DEATH.

Audacious

Everyones favorite Maths fight.
Who do YOU think should be rightly and totally credited with the invention of Infinitesimal: Differential and Integral calculus?

Personally given the formation and presentation of the work, I think ol Jeff Leibniz was the man on the money. However, its up for a lotta debate.
Have at it.








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Pherekydes

Not sure who wins, but whoever it was it certainly wasn't Jeff Leibniz.

Audacious

Jeffrey is the English form of Gottfried...

Dont have to be Newton to work that out.

Less of the pedantic, more of the mathematic.

Fremen

We call it Calculus, rather than Fluxions and Fluents. History appears to have decided.
(Though Newton did do it first and only avoided publishing because his corpuscular theory of light got trashed so badly)

Edit:
Round two:
Paul Erdős V. Alte Selberg over the elementary proof of the prime number theorem.
FIGHT!

Clinker

Audacious wrote: »

Jeffrey is the English form of Gottfried...

Dont have to be Newton to work that out.

Less of the pedantic, more of the mathematic.

Sticking with the pedantry, Godfrey would be the English equivalent of Gottfried, though obviously it doesn't allow you the boyish raciness of "Jeff Leibniz".

Thomas_S_Hunterson

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ronaldoshaky

Aren't Leibniz and Newton both considered to have invented calculus independently?

I find Leibniz notation easier to use. Newton's notation always puts me off. I dont like the dots that he used for identifying derivatives.

El Siglo

"Kids kids you can both get me a beer":) They both did it, but we're using Liebniz's notation ever since. By the way, Sean_K - brilliant!:D