Today, calculus is a part of engineering, physics, economics and many other scientific disciplines. The two mathematicians disagreed bitterly over who should be considered the true father of calculus.

In the 17th century the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat set a challenge for future generations of mathematicians—prove that there are no whole number solutions for the following closely ...

Newton’s father had died before he was born ... towards the big unsolved mathematical problems of the day, such as calculus - a way of describing how things change. Calculus would later be ...

and developing the mathematics of calculus. Newton was born prematurely on December 25, 1642, in Woolsthorpe, England, to a poor farming family. His father had died before his birth, and he grew ...

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Brandeis agreed to let her squeeze a four-year physics curriculum into two years (the length of her scholarship) if — and it was a big if — she could pass a tough exam in vector calculus. Her ...

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This timeline starts in 1943 with the work of Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts, their ‘McCulloch and Pitts neuron’ and their paper: “A logical calculus ... document by father of computers ...

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