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Comment by frozenport | Hacker News Reader

Should have called it Leibniz to match the famous calculus controversy

I didn't know about this controversy and checked Wikipedia[0]. Funny thing is, the first information is what it is called in German ("Prioritätsstreit"), indicating it's somewhat relevant in Germany and yet there is no German Wikipedia article about it.

There is a small segment in the german article about Leibniz[1] and even less in the German article about Newton[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%E2%80%93Newton_calculu...

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz#Prio...

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Mathematik

"Prioritätsstreit" is just a german word for a priority dispute, i.e. the question who was the first to come up with calculus, not something to indicate that this would be a priority to the German volk. If my memory serves me right, Leibniz didn't much mind about the whole business.

but why write the german word for it in the english article if it isn't somewhat relevant?

Because Leibniz was German, and thus knowledge of the word's relevance to the topic might be useful in further reading?

Einstein is the perfect name. Newton's physics is a private case of Einstein's after all.

*limiting case is the term physicists describe this relation between newtonian mechanics and relativity.

If you don't want physics, do not evoke Newton's name and try to bandwagon on someone else's reputation.

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