"Leibniz's thirtieth year and his last in the City of Light was his annus mirabulus. ...The year of miracles began in late August 1675 with the arrival of Walther Ehrenfried von Tschirnhaus. ...The two young Germans became instant best friends, achieving a degree of intimacy rarely matched in the course of Leibniz's life. ... In the HĂ´tel des Romains, the two expatriots promptly engaged in mathematical parleys. ...the papers preserved in Leibniz's files are crisscrossed with the scribbled handwriting of both men. It was around this time that Leibniz passed the threshold of the calculus. In a note from October 29, 1675, two months after Tschirnhaus's arrival, Leibniz for the first time used the symbol ∫ to stand for integration, replacing the earlier "omn" (for "omnes" [all]). Two weeks later, on November 11, he used dx for the first time to represent the "differential of x." Leibniz now believed himself to be in sole possession of the general method we call calculus. At some point he shuffled his new equations over to Tschirnhaus ...[who] dismissed it all as mere playing with symbols."
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Matthew Stewart, The Courtier and the Heretic (2006)
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