Great Thinkers, Great Theorems

The Legacy of Leibniz (1x16)

Uitzenddatum: Jan 01, 2010

Probe the career of Newton's great rival, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who came relatively late to mathematics, plunging in during a diplomatic assignment to Paris. In short order, he discovered the "Leibniz series" to represent π, and within a few years he invented calculus independently of Newton.