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Friday, April 05, 2019

Calculus...

A romp through the history of calculus

Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz both “died in excruciating pain while suffering from calculi — a bladder stone for Newton, a kidney stone for Leibniz”. It was a cruelly ironic end for the scientists who independently invented calculus: the word comes from the Latin for ‘small stone’, in reference to pebbles once used for counting. Such fascinating anecdotes abound in Infinite Powers, a new book by mathematician Steven Strogatz.
Nature | 5 min read

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