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calculus

Published on Nov 22, 2015

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calculus

wHO CREATED CALCULUS

  • Issac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz developed modern calculus
  • Issac also used other ideas from scientist including Kleper, Galileo etc.
  • The Ancients: Pythagoras, Euclid, and Archimedes
  • Forerunners: Descartes, Mersenne, Pierre Fermat, Pascal, and Huygens
  • Later Moderns: Johann Carl, William Thomson, Augustin, Abel,Hermite  

what is calculus

  • Calculus was invented as a tool for solving problems
  • Calculus is also the math study of change
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when was calculus discovered

  • developed in the 17th century.

why was calculus develoed

  • It was invented to help describe the physical phenomenon that we see.

types of calculus

  • there is ancient calculus ,
  • there is medieval ,
  • and there is also modern calculus.
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