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17y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Isaac newton is credited for inventing calculus, though this is still a matter of debate. Newton, working on the laws of motion and other physical laws, needed more advanced mathematical laws and equations to assist him in his work. He claims to have invented calculus in 1666 while working on physics. There was another mathematician, Gottfried Leibniz, that claims to have been independently working on calculus in 1674. Leibniz published some of his work in 1684, whereas Newton did not publish until 1693.

Some parts of the debate claim that Leibniz saw parts of Newton's unpublished work, which is what led him to his discoveries. Most people grant Isaac Newton with the contribution of calculus to mathematics and we still use many of his symbols!

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