The followers of Leibniz in Germany and those of Newton in England are neglecting their productive work in favor of serving as “cat’s-paws and hired leg-breakers,” as Root puts it, in arguments over ...

Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj This propulsive account from journalist Miller (Agent 110) brings to vivid life a little-known ...

The darker side of Isaac Newton is the theme of a new play currently on show at the New End Theatre in London. Written by the chemist Carl Djerassi, "Calculus" examines Newton's famous dispute with ...

The BBC’s Melvin Bragg can’t get enough of Isaac Newton and the great physicist’s battles with his fellow scientists. This morning Bragg gathered a cabal of Oxbridge historians to chat about 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__1675: __Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation that's still in use today.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 ...

Today, we celebrate the birthday of one of the most important human beings to walk the face of the Earth. On this day, in 1642, Sir Isaac Newton was born. He would be 371. Newton was a physicist and ...

Math teacher Ben Orlin writes and draws the (aptly named) blog Math With Drawings and is the author of a new book, Change Is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World. To mark its ...

Earlier this year, [Dan Maloney] went inside mechanical calculators. Being the practical sort, [Dan] jumped right into the Pascaline invented by Blaise Pascal. It couldn’t multiply or divide. He then ...

Go to updated and illustrated post. __1675: __Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫ in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation that's still in use today. Leibniz was a ...