2020/07/20 by Miguel Palomo · 1 citation
Mathematics · #History and Theory of Mathematics
paper · doi:10.1080/00033790.2020.1794038
openalex publication_date 2020/07/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
The consensus today is that both Newton and Leibniz created calculus independently. Yet, this was not so clear at the beginning of the eighteenth century. A bitter controversy took place at that time, which came to be known as the 'calculus war', probably the greatest clash in the history of science. While it is accepted that the debate started when Fatio de Duillier publicly accused Leibniz of plagiarism in 1699, earlier evidence of its origins can be found in an exchange of letters between Leibniz and Huygens.