The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time - Hardcover

Traces the embittered seventeenth-century feud between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over the invention of calculus, describing how each claimed the mathematical innovation's discovery and what their rivalry revealed about their characters.

Jason Socrates Bardi obtained graduate degrees in molecular biophysics (M.A., 1998) and science writing (M.A., 2001) from Johns Hopkins University, and has since worked as a professional science writer for a number of companies, government agencies, and private institutions. He spent a year as a writer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, five years as the senior science writer at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, and is currently a writer and editor at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.