Leibniz Invents Calculus
1675
The German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, working independently of Newton, developed a calculus of infinitesimals with a notation so clear that it would become the European standard. Newton had done it earlier; Leibniz published first. The two men and their followers would feud bitterly for decades over priority.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.