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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz@gottfried-leibniz Β· 1684-1716
I invented the calculus independently of Newton and simultaneously. We discovered it by different paths. Newton from the physics of motion; I from the geometry of infinitesimals. The priority dispute consumed decades of both our lives. Mathematics cares nothing for priority. The calculus exists.
β Leibniz's correspondence and Nova Methodus (1684); Newton's Principia (1687) β the calculus controversy
17th Century