When you are struggling to learn calculus, it is sometimes amazing that not only did someone think it up, but two people thought it up at one time. However, Leibniz also built what might be the ...

It's sometimes thought that the creation of world-changing inventions is like lightning never striking twice, with one brilliant mind being responsible. But much like lightning, which often doesstrike ...

1675: Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation that’s still in use today. Leibniz was a German mathematician and philosopher ...

One of the most heated controversies in the early 18th century was between two of the brightest minds of the age, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz. Their conflict was over a simple matter of ...

Calculus. I didn't make you wait long for that one, did I? Sir Isaac Newton was the first to discover and develop calculus. (And according to many scholars, so was Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz.) ...

Leibniz’s works on Differential Calculus was published nine years before that of Isaac Newton. Scholars are, however, of the opinion that each discovered the methods independently.

Mr. Kempe skillfully presents Leibniz’s development of the methods and symbols of infinitesimal calculus, the basis of our ...

On this day in 1675, Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x), at least according to historical documents. You may use this ...

1675: Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫ in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation that’s still in use today. Leibniz was a German mathematician and philosopher ...