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longship

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2. Take that Gottfried von Leibniz and Isaac Newton!

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Sun Jan 31, 2016, 12:35 PM

Jan 2016

You both lose!

BTW, I love the calculus. It made undergrad physics easy-peasy!

As Newton said, "I have stood on the shoulders of giants." Von Leibniz would have said the same, if only to battle with Newton.

(Newton and von Leibniz both independently invented calculus at the same time. They fought for the rest of their lives over it. Today's calculus uses von Leibniz's notation.)

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Ancient Babylonians Used Geometry That Anticipated Calculus [View all] n2doc Jan 2016 OP

Very cool We stand on the shoulders of giants. Gregorian Jan 2016 #1

Take that Gottfried von Leibniz and Isaac Newton! longship Jan 2016 #2

Newton had better connections, IIRC. bvf Jan 2016 #7

Numeric integration! phantom power Jan 2016 #3

and Egypt's like, "oh, that ol' thing?" MisterP Jan 2016 #4

Galileo was also credited with a version of this theorem. Jim__ Jan 2016 #5

It is things like this that make me loathe religion... Moostache Jan 2016 #6