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 author does not deal with the controversy between Newton and Leibniz as to who discovered the calculus, considering it unnecessary to add to the long-existing discussions of this subject until ...

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 ...