Now regarded as the bane of many college students\' existence, Calculus was one of the most important Mathematical innovations of the seventeenth century.
They are both credited with giving mathematics its Greatest push forward s.
But a dispute over its discovery sowed the seeds of discontent between two of the Greatest scientific giants of all time--Sir Issac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
Today Newton and Leibniz are generally considered the twin independent inventors of calculus.
Now regarded as the bane of many college students\' existence, Calculus was one of the most important Mathematical innovations of the seventeenth century