NAME: Joyce Angela T.

Dagamac
YEAR & SECTION: 1st year, BSCE107
Activity 9: Who Invented Calculus?
Direction:
Who Invented Calculus? To give you a decision
regarding this question, give some points or credit
that this calculus belongs to Gottfried Leibnitz and
also some points or credit to consider that this
calculus belongs to Isaac Newton. After getting all
the information you need ,then you decide who
invented calculus.

Two scientists are largely credited with the

introduction of calculus; each is recognized for
independently creating the fundamentals of the subject.
It is Leibniz, however, who is credited with giving the
new discipline the name it is known by today: "calculus".
Newton's name for it was "the science of fluents and
fluxions". However, Newton is the one most often
credited with this development. By this idea and by
reading the story of "who got there first” is called the
Newton-Leibniz Calculus Controversy, which takes place
in the mid-1660s. This story provides me with the fact
that Leibniz who first published a work in 1684 entitled a
great summary of the basic idea of calculus.

Newton itself realized that Leibniz had developed a

similar idea and newton just sent a letter to ensure that
he would receive the credit for this, also made an
accusations that Leibniz read some of his manuscript to
develop his own idea that is the reason why people were
confused about who “stole” the idea from the other.
That's how the two scientist controversy started.
However, since the paper of Leibniz was published first
without reading some manuscript from Newton, I have
decided that Leibniz invented Calculus first.