__1675: __Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation that's still in use today.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 ...

THE ancient Greeks determined various areas and volumes by a method known as that of exhaustion; but they had no integral calculus properly so called, any more, than (pace Prof. Burnet) they had a ...

When doing complex calculations in school, we have fond memories of using a calculator. The credit for this goes to Gottfried Leibniz. Gottfried Leibniz was a renowned German polymath, known as the ...

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 ...

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 __1675: __Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫ in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation that's still in use today.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 ...