Back then it was nationalism and personal pride (it's said Newton himself wrote the report convincting Leibnitz of plaigirism!) played a role. I have no idea whether such a thing had anything to due with this latest "Einstein versus Newton" and I'm no authority on the subject - but you'd think they'd at least make a mention of it! Math history, suprisingly to some, is a such great subject - full of interesting characters and controversites all around the development of the beautiful ideas of mathematics.
Exactly! Mathematics can be very closely related to philosophy. Liebnitz was also a philosopher. I'll bet they were all very colorful characters!
I got hooked the day we looked at limit theorems to describe infinity.