tial calculus despite it being invented independently by Gottfried Leibniz. Newton managed to have himself appointed to chair the committee reviewing Leibniz’s work and determine who had come up with the idea first. Unsurprisingly, the committee found for Newton! We see Newton's laws of reflection and tra

er straddled as those tools did from each other. Wiener was a giant of the earlier era and built on the tools developed since the time of Newton and Leibniz to describe and analyze continuous processes in the physical world. In 1948 he published Cybernetics, a word he coined to describe the science of com

er straddled as those tools did from each other. Wiener was a giant of the earlier era and built on the tools developed since the time of Newton and Leibniz to describe and analyze continuous processes in the physical world. In 1948 he published Cybernetics, a word he coined to describe the science of com

h infinity and the paradoxes it raises. In between, the inventors of calculus, starting with Archimedes around 250 BC and culminating with Newton and Leibniz in the mid-1600s, tried to domesticate infinity to make what we now regard as integral and differential calculus. And to a large extent, they succeed