1. The History and Development of Calculus
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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