“Newton Or Leibniz, Who Should Get The Credit?” The controversy regarding the discovery of differential calculus has continually hounded mathematics for the past 2 centuries. At the center of this controversy is Gottfried Leibinz and Sir Isaac Newton. Two great mathematicians who contested for the prestige of being named the inventor of calculus. Sir Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He was born unto a family of farmers but never knew his father who died before he was born. He was left in the care of his grandmother. As a young student, Isaac was inattentive and sluggish, quite the o