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To: phantomworker

Newton was doing what we call differentiation and integrals in 1666 at the age of 24.


53 posted on 11/23/2005 6:44:38 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Right Wing Assault

I thought Liebnitz did that? Never heard Newton's name mentioned the entire time I was in grad school (in math).

http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/math/biograph/bioleib.htm


59 posted on 11/23/2005 6:47:21 PM PST by phantomworker (A new day! Begin it serenely; with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense!)
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