In the 12th century, the Indian mathematician Bhaskara II developed an early derivative representing infinitesimal change, and he described an early form of "Rolle's theorem". ... James Gregory proved a special case of the second fundamental theorem of calculus in AD 1668.       ... The basic insight that both Newton and Leibniz had was the fundamental theorem of calculus.       ... Modern differential calculus on mean value theorem Archimedes is especially important for his discovery of the relation between the surface and volume of a sphere and its circumscribing cylinder. ...

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