2007-07-11 02:53:13 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
NEWTON
2007-07-11 02:56:59 · answer #1 · answered by gaid123 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is a debate!! Two people around the same time Issac Newton and a German mathematician called Leibniz ((He's even in the spell checker)or sum it) came up with calculus form.
But due to Newtons standing and amazing contribution to science he is always credited with being the father, but Leibniz style notation is still the format used.
2007-07-11 09:54:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Leibniz devised the version which we currently use, but the true originator was Sir Isaac Newton. As a close personal friend of Sir Edmund Halley, he wanted to help with the calculations regarding the orbits of planets & comets around the Sun. Finding no such branch of mathematics existed, he invented it.
2007-07-12 07:27:38 · answer #3 · answered by general_ego 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle books - in particular the first one, Quicksilver - for a great (fictionalised) description of Newton's invention of calculus, and the arguments with Leibniz over who got the credit.
2007-07-11 11:32:07 · answer #4 · answered by Daniel R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mr Calculus of course.
2007-07-11 08:33:34 · answer #5 · answered by david h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sir Isaac Newton.
2007-07-11 02:58:06 · answer #6 · answered by Raccoon 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sir Issac Newton.
See this link below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus
2007-07-11 02:57:07 · answer #7 · answered by Oklahoman 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sir Isaac Newton is the answer to that question. He literally just invented it one day when trying to solve a mathematical problem.
Nuts.
2007-07-11 03:01:46 · answer #8 · answered by drumboy_14 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leibniz
2007-07-11 03:36:20 · answer #9 · answered by Twiggy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some say Newton and others say Leibniz, but they are both great contributors to the subject.
2007-07-11 03:01:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anthony W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it may have been Addulus, also known as Madulus,who was the step grandfather of Bigus Dikus.
2007-07-11 02:58:21 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋