PEDDIREDDY SHASHI KIRAN REDDY 2014A2PS548H   Course Name: Mathematics I Course No.: MATH F111 Introduction Calculus, known in its early history as infinitesimal calculus, is a mathematical discipline made up of four main concepts, the limit, continuity, the derivative and the integral. ... It permitted the solution to a wide range of mathematical problems by means of a newly invented language or metaphor. ... From the school of Greek mathematics, Eudoxus (c. 408-355 BC) used the method of exhaustion, which prefigures the concept of the li...

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During the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church had created a system of beliefs based on the teachings of ancient Greeks and Romans. ... "It claimed that the rate of fall of an object was determined by its weight, held that matter was constructed out of four possible elements, with different matter containing different combinations of these four, and described the universe as the Greek astronomer Ptolemy had described it, as a static and finite thing in which the Earth occupied the central position, with the sun and planets in revolution and the distant stars inhabiting its farthest edges."...

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