There he received a good understanding of basic mathematics, studying differential and integral calculus, analytic geometry, and the foundations of analysis. ... In the summer of 1854, Dedekind qualified as a university lecturer and began lecturing on the mathematics of probability as well as on geometry with parallel treatment of analytic and projective methods. ... Leibniz's students, the Swiss Bernoulli brothers, used calculus to solve this and other problems, such as finding the curve of quickest descent connecting two given points in a vertical plane. ...

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