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The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time Paperback – April 26, 2007

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Now regarded as the bane of many college students' existence, calculus was one of the most important mathematical innovations of the seventeenth century. But a dispute over its discovery sewed the seeds of discontent between two of the greatest scientific giants of all time -- Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Today Newton and Leibniz are generally considered the twin independent inventors of calculus, and they are both credited with giving mathematics its greatest push forward since the time of the Greeks. Had they known each other under different circumstances, they might have been friends. But in their own lifetimes, the joint glory of calculus was not enough for either and each declared war against the other, openly and in secret. This long and bitter dispute has been swept under the carpet by historians -- perhaps because it reveals Newton and Leibniz in their worst light -- but The Calculus Wars tells the full story in narrative form for the first time. This vibrant and gripping scientific potboiler ultimately exposes how these twin mathematical giants were brilliant, proud, at times mad and, in the end, completely human.

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Jason Socrates Bardi is a writer and editor specializing in the sciences. He has written for a number of different companies, government agencies, ADN private institutions, including NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the Scripps Research Institute.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Basic Books (April 26, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1560259922
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1560259923
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.69 x 8.5 inches

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Matt

Wish it focused more on the interesting story it had to tell

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2022

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The rivalry between Leibniz and Newton is a very interesting one, and I enjoyed reading about it here. However, the biggest problem I have with this book is that the author tends to go off topic quite a bit. On more than one occasion, the book stops focusing on the calculus wars, and spends multiple pages detailing other historical events that happened around the same time the calculus wars were happening, even though they had very little to do with the wars themselves. Maybe the book would've been too short otherwise, but I found it hard to get through pages of material barely relevant to the story I bought the book to read about. I'm still glad I read it; I just wish it stayed on topic more.

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2014

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I had high hopes for this book, but was very disappointed by the chatty tone, the sloppy editing, and the lack of any insight into the actual mathematics of the topic.
Like many other reviewers here, I was immediately dismayed by the poor writing style. The tone is way too chatty, and the personal asides of the author are jarring and off-putting. Also, it's clear that the book received very little in the way of proof-reading, as I noticed several passages that were almost verbatim repetitions from earlier in the book.
But the worst aspect was that there was no significant discussion of the actual mathematics. It seems to me that anyone who would buy this book would have a love of math, and a knowledge of calculus, and would be interested in the substantive differences between Newton's and Leibnitz's approaches to the subject. That was something I was really hoping to get some insight into. Instead, what I found was chapter after chapter of meandering historical anecdotes, delivered in an insufferably chatty tone.

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ROBERT E. SCALE

NEWTONvsLEIBNIZ

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2022

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It was pure mental blood match between the two. Newton played dirty by using the Royal Society against Leibniz. Leibniz won in the end. Every math class around the world uses his calculus not Newtons.

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jd

Good story -- Lots of history

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2019

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It was an interesting read about the independent discovery/invention of calculus, but there was also a lot if history that seemed irrelevant. I found myself skipping several pages here and there to get back to the Calculus Wars. Good descriptions of the personalities and contributions of Newton and Leibniz.

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Outstanding read!

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2016

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The book weaves political history and math history together very well. This was an enlightening window into the background story of the development of one of the greatest tools in mathematics, namely, calculus. If you study mathematics or related fields like physics in depth (math majors, mathematicians, physicists, astronomers, etc), then you should read this.

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James

It’s easy to imagine him

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2016

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About half way through this book I’m still waiting for an analysis of the mathematics when I got tired of, what seemed to me, Mr. Bardi’s bias toward Leibniz’s side of this story. I turned to Gale Chirstianson’s biography of Newton and the section on the Liebnitz conflict and found confirmation of my suspicions in the simple descriptions of Leibnitz’s appearance:

Bardi: “Leibnitz was a larger-than-life figure, gangly, with long fingers and limbs, and a huge wig and courtly clothes. It’s easy to imagine him, with sweeping gestures, describing the uses of the machine: a marvelous speaker, now he’s talking about …”

Christianson: “As a physical specimen Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz must have seemed quite unprepossessing to his contemporaries. He was somewhat stooped at the waist and of medium height, and his broad-shouldered torso was propelled about by bandy legs and diminutive feet. His oval countenance, …”

I’ve abandoned Bardi’s book for good, will use Christianson and have ordered Boyer for more on calculus than history and I expect a more balanced presentation of facts.

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first snow

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2015

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Incredible history of this subject from events surrounding Leibnitz and Newton.

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