The Calculus Wars Quotes

“Leibniz’s opened powerfully: “It is obvious that the happiness of mankind consists in two things—to have the power, as far as is permitted, to do what it wills and to know what, from the nature of things, ought to be willed.”
― Jason Socrates Bardi, The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time

“Calculus, after all, is a body of knowledge dealing with the analysis of geometry and numbers, and for Leibniz this was one example of a larger logical system for analyzing all his characteristica universalis.”
― Jason Socrates Bardi, The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time