Experimental Blog #110

Comments on "The Calculus Wars - Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time" by Jason Socrates Bardi

Jason Bardi writes that calculus, "As a body of knowledge, it is a type of mathematical analysis that can be used to study changing quantities", and, "Differentials are small momentary increments or decreases in changing quantities, and integrals are sums of infinitesimal intervals of geometrical curves or shapes."

It is interesting that, although Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz never met, they did correspond sometimes.
It is also thought provoking and disturbing that in the early years of their careers they had considerable esteem for each other, although at a distance, of course.

However, in their old age, when they were both past 60, and to the ends of their lives, neither of them could keep themselves from being provoked into an increasing and very acrimonious conflict with the other; and neither of them could believe in the intellectual honesty of the other.