When is Plagiarism not Plagiarism, Well a famous example of this is the Calculus theory and development.
This interests me since it both demonstrates mathematics and the hot topic of the week Plagiarism.
Both Issac Newton and Gottfreid Liebniz both lay claim to this discovery.
Liebniz first discovered the theories of calculus during the 1670’s published in the 1680’s.
However Newton developed his theories of calculus during the 1660’s published during the 1690’s.
Was Plagiarism involved here?
Much controversy blighted Liebniz for the rest of his days unfortunately, even though he appealed to the Royal Society(a sought after club for scientists) for solace in 1711.
But Issac Newton was the president of the Royal society at the time, so may have fallen on deaf ears.
As stated in Essays on the life and work of Newton by De Morgan (p68)
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In 1849 ,C.J Gerhardt, While going through Leibniz’s manuscripts, found extracts from Newton’s De Analysi per Equationes Numero Terminorum Infinitas(published in 1704 as part of the De Quadratura Vurvarum , but also previously circulated among mathematicians starting with newton giving a copy to Issac Barrow in 1669 and Barrow sending it to John Collins) In leibniz’s handwriting.”
Perhaps Liebnitz last laugh was that the notation for calculus we use today is Leibnitz’s itself.
As written by David Joyce, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Clark University “Newton used a line above a variable for an integral, or antiderivative. That's fine for an indefinite integral, but it's not as useful as Leibniz' notation” written 8 jul 2014 retrieved from https://www.quora.com/What-was-wrong-with-Newtons-notation-in-his-calculus. 13/09/2016
For fun :- watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axZTv5YJssA
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This interests me since it both demonstrates mathematics and the hot topic of the week Plagiarism.
Both Issac Newton and Gottfreid Liebniz both lay claim to this discovery.
Liebniz first discovered the theories of calculus during the 1670’s published in the 1680’s.
However Newton developed his theories of calculus during the 1660’s published during the 1690’s.
Was Plagiarism involved here?
Much controversy blighted Liebniz for the rest of his days unfortunately, even though he appealed to the Royal Society(a sought after club for scientists) for solace in 1711.
But Issac Newton was the president of the Royal society at the time, so may have fallen on deaf ears.
As stated in Essays on the life and work of Newton by De Morgan (p68)
“As When, after …show more content…
In 1849 ,C.J Gerhardt, While going through Leibniz’s manuscripts, found extracts from Newton’s De Analysi per Equationes Numero Terminorum Infinitas(published in 1704 as part of the De Quadratura Vurvarum , but also previously circulated among mathematicians starting with newton giving a copy to Issac Barrow in 1669 and Barrow sending it to John Collins) In leibniz’s handwriting.”
Perhaps Liebnitz last laugh was that the notation for calculus we use today is Leibnitz’s itself.
As written by David Joyce, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Clark University “Newton used a line above a variable for an integral, or antiderivative. That's fine for an indefinite integral, but it's not as useful as Leibniz' notation” written 8 jul 2014 retrieved from https://www.quora.com/What-was-wrong-with-Newtons-notation-in-his-calculus. 13/09/2016
For fun :- watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axZTv5YJssA
Word count :-