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10/24/2015 1:09:49 AM
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Calling all Serious Mathematicians

I am interested to hear thoughts on the long debated topic of who created the absolutely wonderful tool called Calculus. As I hope most of you who would be interested in this sort of topic would know, this is the famous mathematical debate within the history of mathematics between Gottfreid Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton. So who founded calculus first?

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  • It was my understanding that Newton had created calculus significantly before Leibniz, but did't publish any of his work. Leibniz created his own version of calculus and decided to promptly publish his work. When Newton found out about this he tried to get his own work published and take credit for developing calculus.

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