__ 1675: __Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫ in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation that's still in use today. Leibniz was a German mathematician and philosopher ...

If you have read Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver—the first volume of his Baroque Cycle (2003)—you will remember the smell of the age he recreates: Wet ink, gossip, gunpowder, and the new arrogance of ...

Among his many achievements, Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) invented differential calculus independently of Isaac Newton; much of the notation and vocabulary used today comes from Leibniz, who ...

One of the most heated controversies in the early 18th century was between two of the brightest minds of the age, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz. Their conflict was over a simple matter of ...

Sunday's Google Doodle celebrates the 372nd birthday of German philosopher, mathematician and polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Leibnitz was born on July 1, 1646, in Leipzig, Germany, towards the ...

__1675: __Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation that's still in use today. Leibniz was a German mathematician and philosopher who ...