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curprev 01:3201:32, 27 July 2024 ELApro talk contribs m 189,916 bytes +67 →The Geometrical Lectures of Isaac Barrow (1914): minor links undo

curprev 07:3407:34, 28 February 2024 MathXplore talk contribs m 189,849 bytes +22 added Category:Calculus using HotCat undo

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curprev 17:0917:09, 11 October 2020 ELApro talk contribs m 189,839 bytes +32 →See also: Ancient Greek mathematics undo
curprev 16:5616:56, 11 October 2020 ELApro talk contribs 189,807 bytes +1,501 →H-K: Henle & Kleinberg, 'Infinitesimal Calculus' Introduction (2): history of modern math..is to an astonishing degree the history of the calculus..the 1st great achievement..since the Greeks & dominated..for centuries..at the heart of..geometry/number/space/time/truth/unification..without them..vortices of Descartes..through these methods natural science was born..slopes & areas for curves..Algebra/geometry/trig were..insufficient..prior to late 17th..only special cases undo
curprev 13:0513:05, 11 October 2020 ELApro talk contribs 188,306 bytes +144 →External links: Under YouTube videos: Calculus | Math History | Calculus Norman J. Wildberger, Insights into Mathematics. undo

curprev 20:0620:06, 26 May 2020 UDScott talk contribs m 188,162 bytes +6,204 Reverted edit by 217.54.191.254 (talk • contributions) to last version by Lofty abyss undo Tag: Rollback
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curprev 18:3218:32, 3 September 2019 Hasley talk contribs 188,162 bytes +164 Revert to revision 2450643 dated 2018-08-19 04:30:50 by ELApro using popups undo

curprev 19:5519:55, 2 September 2019 23.124.119.241 talk 187,998 bytes −15 →A: Someone inserted "Naruto Uzumaki" (a reference to a Japanese cartoon) into the text. I simply cut it out. undo

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curprev 04:3004:30, 19 August 2018 ELApro talk contribs 188,162 bytes +145 →External links: under YouTube videos: The Birth of Calculus (Exploring Maths) from the BBC and the Open University. undo

curprev 13:4713:47, 17 April 2018 ELApro talk contribs 188,017 bytes +226 →External links undo

curprev 20:0220:02, 16 January 2018 ELApro talk contribs 187,791 bytes +1,478 →M-P: McCormack, "Joseph Louis Lagrange" (2): Leibnitz's integral symbol..sufficient substantiation of his claims|Many of the greatest discoveries e.g., Galileo/Huygens/Newton were made without the mechanism [of calculus] afterwards so indispensable undo
curprev 15:3215:32, 16 January 2018 ELApro talk contribs m 186,313 bytes +6 →The Analyst (1734): minor link undo

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curprev 18:5918:59, 15 January 2018 ELApro talk contribs 186,255 bytes +5,129 →A General History of Mathematics (1803): Added subsection "The Analyst (1734)" with (10) undo

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curprev 16:5616:56, 13 October 2017 ELApro talk contribs 175,091 bytes +486 added subsection "B" with (1) - Byerly, "Introduction to the Calculus of Variations": Calculus of Variations owed its origin to the attempt to solve..interesting/narrow class of problems in Maxima & Minima undo

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curprev 21:0421:04, 6 January 2017 ELApro talk contribs 180,430 bytes +125 →T-Z: extended van der Waerden: Nevertheless, his rigorous determination of areas and volumes make Archimedes the precursor of the modern integral calculus undo
curprev 20:5620:56, 6 January 2017 ELApro talk contribs 180,305 bytes +1,091 →T-Z: van der Waerden, "Ontwakende wetenschap" Tr. "Science Awakening" with image Quadrature.svg: Riemann's integral definition..enclosed between..lower/upper sums..Archimedes used for volumes..but no single concept/foundation..used different methods undo

curprev 16:4116:41, 8 December 2016 ELApro talk contribs 179,214 bytes +76 Included Contents link to new section "Arithmetica Infinitorum (1656)" undo
curprev 16:3816:38, 8 December 2016 ELApro talk contribs 179,138 bytes +1,216 →Euclid's Elements (ca. 300 B.C.): transcribed section "Arithmetica Infinitorum (1656)" from John Wallis undo
curprev 16:2116:21, 8 December 2016 ELApro talk contribs 177,922 bytes +2,508 →H-K: Hobson, "Squaring the Circle": foundations of the new analysis were laid..ideas/methods..radical transformation. 1st effect..replace old geometrical methods of calculating pi. 1st:Wallis pi/2, shewed defect/excess, advantage over Vieta/rational undo

curprev 01:5301:53, 7 December 2016 ELApro talk contribs 175,414 bytes +808 →M-P: Newton, De methodis serierum et fluxionum AsQBy Stillwell: it occurred to no one (except N. Mercator) to fit the doctrine..for decimal numbers in similar fashion to variables..open to striking consequences..same relationship..Algebra/Arithmetic undo

curprev 18:4418:44, 22 November 2016 ELApro talk contribs m 174,606 bytes +45 →Q-S: minor edit undo
curprev 18:3918:39, 22 November 2016 ELApro talk contribs 174,561 bytes +398 →Q-S: Smith, "History of Mathematics" V.1: Fermat..applied idea of infinitesimals to..quadrature..maxima and minima..+ anticipated the work of Cavalieri undo
curprev 16:5416:54, 22 November 2016 ELApro talk contribs 174,163 bytes +876 →C: Coolidge, "A History of Geometrical Methods": curious fact in the history of mathematics that discoveries of the greatest importance were made simultaneously by different men of genius undo

curprev 19:1319:13, 17 November 2016 ELApro talk contribs 173,287 bytes +1,257 →H-K: Huygens, "Oeuvres complètes Tome XIV": Cavalierian methods: one deceives oneself if one accepts as demonstration, but useful means of discovery..way discovery made matters most..idea/first light..most readily understood..save labour/time/rigor undo

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