Second place day: celebrate the Leipnizes, Wallaces, and that-guy-who-invented-the-telephone-6-hours-too-late of the world. Geniuses who made absolutely stunning breakthroughs, but were slightly slower or less popular or in the wrong country so it didn’t count.
Thinking of Leibniz as only “the guy who was second after Newton” is a bit misleading. His mathematical contributions were important enough that we still talk about Leibniz rule for the derivation of a product, and his philosophical works were also quite significant.
Second place day: celebrate the Leipnizes, Wallaces, and that-guy-who-invented-the-telephone-6-hours-too-late of the world. Geniuses who made absolutely stunning breakthroughs, but were slightly slower or less popular or in the wrong country so it didn’t count.
Thinking of Leibniz as only “the guy who was second after Newton” is a bit misleading. His mathematical contributions were important enough that we still talk about Leibniz rule for the derivation of a product, and his philosophical works were also quite significant.