For the last 300 years, a debate has raged between mathematicians about who should be credited with the invention of calculus.

Sir Isaac Newton or Godfrey Wilhelm Leibniz.

The sides of the debate have mostly been based on geography, with English mathematicians advocating

for Newton and continental European siding with Leibniz.

Learn more about the war over calculus, even if you've never taken a calculus course in your life, on this episode of sponsored by audible.

If you want to understand calculus at a layman's level, the

audiobook I would recommend is infinite powers how calculus reveals the

secrets of the universe by Stephen Stroggats. Though many of us were scared away from this essential engrossing subject in high school

and college, Stephen Scrogratz's brilliant creative down-to-earth history shows that

calculus is not about complexity, it's about simplicity.

It harnesses an unreal number, infinity, to tackle real world problems.

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For those of you who may not have taken a calculus course, fear not. I'm not going to

beginning into the weeds of equations and given that this is an audio show that would be hard

to do anyhow. Calculus roughly consists of two parts, integral

calculus and derivative calculus. They are related to each other in a similar way that addition

is related to subtraction and division is related to multiplication.

Integral calculus is about finding areas and volumes.

Derivative calculus is about determining rates of change.

It does this by harnessing the power of

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