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Leibniz notation
In calculus, the Leibniz notation, named in honor of the 17th century German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was originally the use of dx and dy and so forth to represent "infinitely small" increments of quantities x and y, just as Δx and Δy represent finite increments of x and y respectively. According to Leibniz, the derivative of y with respect to x, which mathematicians later came to view as
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