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Progress often precedes conflict. Take the birth of science during the age of enlightenment. One of the greatest controversies of the 17th century happened when Leibniz and Newton locked horns over who invented calculus first. Both men undoubtedly knew they were on to something and their intellectual legacy has proven just that, outliving them by centuries. Today calculus is used in computer science, engineering telecommunication and space exploration to name a few. While Newton was initially declared by the Royal Society as the winner, the tussle ended de facto in a posthumous stalemate when in the 1820s even the British mathematicians adopted the Leibnizian notation instead of the less effective Newtonian notation. The current consensus is that both geniuses invented calculus independently.