Absurd Quote by Richard Courant

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.

— Richard Courant

“Leibniz's development of the symbols and theory behind calculus, which allows for the precise study and modeling of change, gave mathematicians a weapon with…

— Christopher Steiner

“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier , Kepler ,…

— Anonymous

“Leibniz's calculus had the same power as Newton's, and thanks to its notation, even a bit more. Nevertheless, underneath all the mathematics, Leibniz's differentials…

— Charles Seife

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

— Kit Williams

The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than…

— John von Neumann

You'll remember Newton was furious at Leibniz, because he developed calculus at the same time. And he went to his death believing that he…

— Charles Koch

“As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one about it…

— Bill Bryson

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

— David Berlinski

“It sometimes happens that mathematical methods conceived in the abstract turn out later to be so well suited to a particular application that they…

— Basil Mahon

Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.

— Wallace B. Smith

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

— Richard Courant