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Dear Mathematician: Dear Leibniz and Newton

May 3, 2017

Calculus begs Leibniz and Newton to stop the custody battle: it's all the same up to a constant.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-05-03-dear-mathematician-who-discovered-me--dear-mathematician-dear-leibniz-and-newton/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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"Dear Leibniz and Newton, Look, I can't stomach another paternity test or custody battle. I just want us to be a family. It's all the same up to a constant, isn't it? –Calculus" [area under a curve] "It's tearing me apart!"

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