The calculus wars - Jason Bardi

Calculus was one of the greatest mathematical innovations of the 17th century but a dispute over its discovery sewed the seeds of discontent between two of the greatest scientific giants of all time - Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Today the two are generally credited with the twin, independent invention of calculus - the joint glory of the discovery, though, was not enough and each declared war against the other, openly and in secret. A brilliant account of the story in full for the first time.