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. However, the actual discovery of calculus is attributed to two men, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Willhelm von Leibniz. The Eng...

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HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CALCULUS Team Number: 6   Name                                                            ID No 1.    ... 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. ... The history of calculus falls into several distinct time periods, most notably the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. ... Calculus provided a new opportunity in mathematical...

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