Go to updated and illustrated post. __1675: __Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫ in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation that's still in use today. Leibniz was a ...

Sunday's Google Doodle celebrates the 372nd birthday of mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He was born near the end of the Thirty Years War, into a world very different from ...

Math teacher Ben Orlin writes and draws the (aptly named) blog Math With Drawings and is the author of a new book, Change Is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World. To mark its ...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton are an unlikely pair for a face-off on Twitter. But a class at Muskegon Community College has brought the pair’s struggle for credit as the inventor of ...

10:33, Sun, Jul 1, 2018 Updated: 15:38, Sun, Jul 1, 2018 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born on July 1, 1646, in Leipzig, Germany toward the end of the devastating Thirty Years’ War. His father, a ...

The BBC’s Melvin Bragg can’t get enough of Isaac Newton and the great physicist’s battles with his fellow scientists. This morning Bragg gathered a cabal of Oxbridge historians to chat about the ...

__1675: __Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation that's still in use today. Leibniz was a German mathematician and philosopher who ...