Poll Standing on the shoulders of giants

This is another grudge match, albeit wankier than Bourdain vs. Ray, and much older. Who invented the calculus? Hard to say. We use Leibnizian notation, because, yo Newton--your weird ratios are not viable in a working system of mathematics! But the theory? Largely Newtonian. Because Leibniz? You do yourself no favors when you posit ideas like " ( Read more... )