{"id":24,"date":"2002-05-10T13:31:46","date_gmt":"2002-05-10T13:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=14"},"modified":"2008-07-24T23:59:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T04:59:51","slug":"math-and-history-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2002\/math-and-history-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Who “Invented” Calculus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prashanth: “Here’s a quiz. Who invented Calculus?”
\nMe: “I dunno, Pythagoras<\/A>? Euclid<\/A>?”
\nPrashanth: “Nope, it was EINSTEIN<\/A>!”
\nMe: “Aaaaaaaappp! WRONG ANSWER!”<\/p>\n

Still convinced he was right, Baby Bird started digging for the answer. When dates like 300 AD started popping up, he got a little concerned. Turns out that if there is an “inventor”, credit would go to Newton<\/A>, or perhaps Leibniz<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prashanth: “Here’s a quiz. Who invented Calculus?” Me: “I dunno, Pythagoras? Euclid?” Prashanth: “Nope, it was EINSTEIN!” Me: “Aaaaaaaappp! WRONG ANSWER!” Still convinced he was right, Baby Bird started digging for the answer. When dates like 300 AD started popping up, he got a little concerned. Turns out that if there is an “inventor”, credit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chatter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t