Leibniz, one of Europe’s most prominent philosophers, had set his mind to one of the trickiest problems in mathematics – the way equations could describe the physical world. Like Newton ...

The German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz appealed to the society to resolve his dispute with Newton over who discovered calculus first. According to Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time ...

What is truly amazing about these accomplishments is that he made these calculations using techniques surprisingly close to those used by Newton, Leibniz and their heirs in the development of ...

His final years were dogged by a ferocious controversy over whether he or Newton had invented calculus. Leibniz died, at age 70, in 1716. Mr. Kempe doesn’t offer a comprehensive biography but ...