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A History of the Calculus
Course Topic(s): One-Variable Calculus | History of Calculus
Essay giving a brief overview of the history of calculus from ancient Greeks to Cauchy, with dozens of links to biographies of the mathematicians involved, including Archimedes, Newton and Leibniz, Jakob and Johann Bernoulli, and l'Hospital references.
Resource URL: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/The_rise_of_calculus.html
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Subject classification(s):
Single Variable Calculus
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Calculus
Creator(s): J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson
Contributor(s): J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson
This resource was cataloged by Janet Beery
Publisher:MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
Resource copyright: St. Andrews University, Scotland
This review was published on February 11, 2011
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