Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy

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In the history of calculus, the calculus controversy was a priority dispute (German: Prioritätsstreit) between mathematicians Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over who had first invented calculus. The question was a major intellectual controversy, beginning in 1699 and reaching its peak in 1712. Leibniz had published his work on calculus first (having learned the rudiments from Erhard Weigel starting in 1663), but Newton's supporters accused Leibniz of plagiarizing Newton's unpublished ideas. The modern consensus is that the two men independently developed their ideas. Their creation of calculus has been called arguably "the greatest advance in mathematics that had taken place since the time of Archimedes." Newton began working on a form of calculus, which he called "The Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series," in 1666 at the age of 23. Although a surviving manuscript from October 1666 records this early work, it was not published until decades later in 1737 as a minor annotation...

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