The practice of calculus dates all the way back to ancient Egypt, where in about 1800 BC, and Egyptian mathematician successfully calculated the volume of a pyramidal frustum. ... It was also applicable to the basis of problems in physics and astronomy that defined its origins. There are two main exercises in calculus; differentiation, which was used for the calculations of velocity and acceleration, the slope of a curve, and optimization, and integration, which worked with calculations of area, volume, arc length, center of mass, work, and pressure. ... It wasn't until the mathematicians...

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Perhaps the two most sought after concepts in the history of the subject were the integral and the derivative, as they were a necessity in finding out information needed about the physical world. For example, computation of the derivative could provide the instantaneous velocity of a moving particle; integration was useful in finding the area of curved regions. ... Calculus provided a new opportunity in mathematical physics to solve long-standing problems. ... Newton was the first to apply calculus to general physics and Leibniz developed much of the notation used in calculus today; h...

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