Part one of term paper
“Newton Or Leibniz, Who Should Get The Credit?” The controversy regarding the discovery of differential calculus has continually hounded mathematics for the past 2 centuries. At the center of this controversy is Gottfried Leibinz and Sir Isaac Newton. Two great mathematicians who contested for the prestige of being named the inventor of c ...

Part two of term paper
... He entered Trinity College in Cambridge. There he learned the philosophies of Descartes and Wallis. He also became interested in the mechanics of Copernican astronomy of Galileo. In 1665, traces of his scientific genius began to appear as he made a series of discoveries in the field of mathematics, optics, physics and astronomy. At that same time he laid the foundations for differential and integral calculus. It should be noted that he discovered calculus years roughly 8 years before Leibniz discove ...