The Calculus Wars
Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time
Now regarded as the bane of many college students' existence, calculus was one of the most important mathematical innovations of the seventeenth century. But a dispute over its discovery sewed the seeds of discontent between two of the greatest scientific giants of all time -- Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Today Newton and Leibniz are generally considered the twin independent inventors of calculus, and they are both credited with giving mathematics its greatest push forward since the time of the Greeks. Had they known each other under different circumstances, they might have been friends. But in their own lifetimes, the join…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7867-3364-4
- EAN: 9780786733644
- Produktnummer: 22912431
- Verlag: Basic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'296 KB
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Jason Socrates Bardi is a writer and editor specializing in the sciences. He has written for a number of different companies, government agencies, ADN private institutions, including NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the Scripps Research Institute.
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