@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt7t8q5.15,
 ISBN = {9780691141343},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7t8q5.15},
 abstract = {Newton and Leibniz will always be mentioned together as the coinventors of the calculus. In character, however, the two men could hardly be less alike. Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (or Leibnitz) was born in Leipzig on 1 July 1646. The son of a philosophy professor, the young Leibniz soon showed great intellectual curiosity. His interests, in addition to mathematics, covered a wide range of topics, among them languages, literature, law, and above all, philosophy. (Newton’s interests outside mathematics and physics were theology and alchemy, subjects on which he spent at least as much time as on his more familiar},
 bookauthor = {Eli Maor},
 booktitle = {"e": The Story of a Number},
 pages = {83--94},
 publisher = {Princeton University Press},
 title = {The Great Controversy},
 year = {1994}
}