61. The History Of Calculus The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness, beauty, and dignity http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/archive/m1f01/public_html/history.html

"The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness, beauty, and dignity, and to describe how the incessant efforts and accumulated genius of many generations have built up that magnificent monument, the object of our most legitimate pride as men, and of our wonder, humility and thankfulness, as individuals. The study of the history of mathematics will not make better mathematicians but gentler ones, it will enrich their minds, mellow their hearts, and bring out their finer qualities." Sir Isaac Newton Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz The discovery of calculus is often attributed to two men, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, who independently developed its foundations. Although they both were instrumental in its creation, they thought of the fundamental concepts in very different ways. While Newton considered variables changing with time, Leibniz thought of the variables x and y as ranging over sequences of infinitely close values. He introduced dx and dy as differences between successive values of these sequences. Leibniz knew that dy/dx gives the tangent but he did not use it as a defining property. On the other hand, Newton used quantities x' and y', which were finite velocities, to compute the tangent. Of course neither Leibniz nor Newton thought in terms of functions, but both always thought in terms of graphs. For Newton the calculus was geometrical while Leibniz took it towards analysis.

62. Timeline Of Calculus History Descartes was educated in the Jesuit preparatory school of La Fl che and the University of Poitiers, taking a degree in law. He then spent two years in http://www.mhhe.com/math/calc/smithminton2e/cd/tools/timeline/index.html

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63. History Of Calculus History of Calculus. Interested in seeing a timeline of calculus' history? This site will take you on a chronological tour of calculus from its conception to its use in our present http://www.bergen.edu/pages/5557.asp

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64. SHiPS || The History Of Calculus Notation Our Notation from Their Quarrel The LeibnizNewton Controversy in Calculus Texts http://www1.umn.edu/ships/9-1/calculus.htm

"Our" Notation from Their Quarrel: The Leibniz-Newton Controversy in Calculus Texts by Shelley Costa, Cornell University In Philosophers At War , Rupert Hall details the historical controversy between Gott-fried Wilhelm von Leibniz and Isaac Newton over the development of the infinitesimal calculus. The controversy itself had achieved fame before Hall's account was published in 1980. Hall attested to this renown in his preface, where he wrote that he was telling "the story of the bitter quarrel between two of the greatest men in the history of thought, the most notorious of all priority disputes." Given that their quarrel achieved such renown, how have Newton and Leibniz, the famous creators of calculus, have been introduced in textbooks to beginning calculus students, both now and in the past? As I detail below, 20th-century American texts depict the men in specific ways, and their styles reveal how each author views the nature of mathematics. Most important, in none of these 20th-century texts is a sense of conflict or controversy evident. Rather, the authors describe Newton and Leibniz simply as co-con-tributors to the great assembly of knowledge that makes up the calculus. Simlarly, late 17th- and early 18th-century texts, though published in Europe contemporaneously with the dispute itself, fail to mention outright the fact that Newton and Leibniz were embroiled in a controversy over priority. Instead, they couch the debate in terms of method. Thus, these early texts define, in essence, a new debate: one of notation and method, and not of priority.

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66. Calculus - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Calculus (Latin, calculus, a small stone used for counting) is a branch of Main article History of calculus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus

Calculus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article is about the branch of mathematics. For other uses, see Calculus (disambiguation) It has been suggested that infinitesimal calculus be merged into this article or section. ( Discuss Topics in Calculus Fundamental theorem Limits of functions Continuity Mean value theorem ... Identities Rules: Power rule Product rule Quotient rule Chain rule ... Improper integrals Integration by: parts disks cylindrical shells ... Jacobian Calculus Latin calculus , a small stone used for counting) is a branch of mathematics focused on limits functions derivatives integrals , and infinite series . This subject constitutes a major part of modern mathematics education . It has two major branches, differential calculus and integral calculus , which are related by the fundamental theorem of calculus . Calculus is the study of change, in the same way that geometry is the study of shape and algebra is the study of operations and their application to solving equations. A course in calculus is a gateway to other, more advanced courses in mathematics devoted to the study of functions and limits, broadly called mathematical analysis . Calculus has widespread applications in science economics , and engineering and can solve many problems for which algebra alone is insufficient.

67. History Of Calculus, Test 1 History of Calculus, Test 1 3 October 2000 Possible answers . What are the main problems that calculus is used to solve? Finding areas enclosed by curves, such as the area of http://www.math.fau.edu/Richman/HistCalc/test1-ans.htm

History of Calculus, Test 1 3 October 2000 Possible answers What are the main problems that calculus is used to solve ? Finding areas enclosed by curves, such as the area of the circle, parabola, spiral and cycloid. Finding tangent lines to curves. Calculating rates of change. Maximization and minimization problems. What contributions did Archimedes make toward solving these problems ? Squaring the circle: the area of a circle is the same as a right triangle with one side the radius and the other the circumference. The volume of a sphere is 2/3 that of the circumscribed cylinder. Quadrature of the parabola: the area of a segment of a parabola is equal to 4/3 the area of the biggest inscribed triangle. The area enclosed by one turn of the spiral is 1/3 that of the circle going through the last point. Calculated approximations to the length of the circumference of a circle ( p What is the binomial theorem? How did Newton extend it a b n a n na n b n n a n b n n n a n b nab n b n where n is a positive integer. Newton extended this theorem to fractional and negative n , in which case the sum on the right does not stop because n n n is never equal to zero. You get an infinite series on the right.

68. Basic Calculus Part I. From Archimedes to Newton. 1. The Greeks Measure the Universe. 2. Ptolemy and the Dynamics of the Universe http://www.nd.edu/~hahn/

Table of Contents Part I From Archimedes to Newton 1. The Greeks Measure the Universe 2. Ptolemy and the Dynamics of the Universe 3. Archimedes Measures Area 4. A New Astronomy and a New Geometry 5. The Calculus of Leibniz 6. The Calculus of Newton 7. The Principia Part II Calculus and the Sciences 8. Analysis of Functions 9. Connections with Statics, Dynamics, and Optics 10. Basic Functions and their Graphs 11. The Exponential Function and the Measurement of Age and Growth 12. The Calculus of Economics 13. Integral Calculus: Meaning and Methods 14. Integral Calculus and the Action of Forces The links Flowchart, Computations, and Use this Text, are pdf files that can be accessed with Acrobat Reader Calculus, Prerequistes and Applications: a Flowchart Possible ways to Use this Text About the Computations in this text This text has been published in Japanese in two volumes by Springer-Verlag, Tokyo. It was translated by Professor Kano Satoru, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Hosei University, Tokyo.

69. Why Study Calculus? A Brief History Of Math Explains, in everyday language, the developments in astronomy, math, and physics that contributed to the discovery of differential calculus and its relationship to area formulas. http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/courses/whystudy.html

Why Do We Study Calculus? or, a brief look at some of the history of mathematics an essay by Eric Schechter version of August 23, 2006 The question I am asked most often is, "why do we study this?" (or its variant, "will this be on the exam?"). Indeed, it's not immediately obvious how some of the stuff we're studying will be of any use to the students. Though some of them will eventually use calculus in their work in physics, chemistry, or economics, almost none of those people will ever need prove anything about calculus. They're willing to trust the pure mathematicians whose job it is to certify the reliability of the theorems. Why, then, do we study epsilons and deltas, and all these other abstract concepts of proofs? Well, calculus is not a just vocational training course. In part, students should study calculus for the same reasons that they study Darwin, Marx, Voltaire, or Dostoyevsky: These ideas are a basic part of our culture; these ideas have shaped how we perceive the world and how we perceive our place in the world. To understand how that is true of calculus, we must put calculus into a historical perspective; we must contrast the world before calculus with the world after calculus. (Probably we should put more history into our calculus courses. Indeed, there is a growing movement among mathematics teachers to do precisely that.)

70. Timeline Of Calculus Timeline of calculus A brief history of calculus By Donald Lancon Jr From http//www.obkb.com/dcljr/mathemat.html Ancient notions c.360 B.C. http://meta-religion.com/Mathematics/Articles/timeline_of_calculus.htm

71. History Of Calculus . history of calculus . If the Calculus itself on this website wasn't interesting enough, the history of it will blow your socks off! The history of Calculus is broken down into three http://andrewsaladino.com/calculus/history.html

.: history of calculus :. If the Calculus itself on this website wasn't interesting enough, the history of it will blow your socks off! The history of Calculus is broken down into three sections(credit for this goes entirely to wikipedia.org The sections are: development significance foundations development :. The history of calculus falls into several distinct time periods, most notably the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. The ancient period introduced some of the ideas of integral calculus, but does not seem to have developed these ideas in a rigorous or systematic way. Calculating volumes and areas, the basic function of integral calculus, can be traced back to the Egyptian Moscow papyrus (c. 1800 BC), in which an Egyptian successfully calculated the volume of a pyramidal frustum. From the school of Greek mathematics, Eudoxus (c. 408-355 BC) used the method of exhaustion, which prefigures the concept of the limit, to calculate areas and volumes while Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC) developed this idea further, inventing heuristics which resemble integral calculus. The method of exhaustion was later used in China by Liu Hui in the 3rd century AD in order to find the area of a circle. It was also used by Zu Chongzhi in the 5th century AD, who used it to find the volume of a sphere. In the 12th century, the Indian mathematician Bh�skara II developed an early derivative representing infinitesimal change, and he described an early form of "Rolle's theorem". Around AD 1000, the Islamic mathematician Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) was the first to derive the formula for the sum of the fourth powers, and using mathematical induction, he developed a method that is readily generalizable to finding the formula for the sum of any integral powers, which was fundamental to the development of integral calculus. In the 12th century, the Persian mathematician Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi discovered the derivative of cubic polynomials, an important result in differential calculus. In the 14th century, Madhava of Sangamagrama, along with other mathematician-astronomers of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics, described special cases of Taylor series, which are treated in the text Yuktibhasa.

72. History Of Calculus 4 posts 2 authors - Last post Oct 18, 2006Carl B. Boyer, The History of Calculus and Its Conceptual Development , 1949/ 1959. Dover reprint of the 1949 edition. http://www.mathkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/math/32411/History-of-Calculus

Home Contact Us FAQ Link to Us ... Discussion Groups Mathematics General Topics Research Operations Research Statistics ... Recreational Math Math Software Maple Mathematica MATLAB Scilab ... October 2006 Tip: Looking for answers? Try searching our database. History of Calculus Thread view: Tree View List View (postings sorted by date) Single Message View Enable EMail Alerts Start New Thread Thread rating: uweWriteArtHdr('','','',1) Thom Jameson - 18 Oct 2006 19:20 GMT I am looking for books that can help me to answer the following questions. 1. How Newton and Leibniz independently invent calculus. 2. What were the controversies that followed. 3. How did the two theories continue to evolve? Did one theory win over the other? Can you please recommend any. Reply to this Message uweWriteArtHdr('#326976441161195644300JavaMailjakartanitrogenmathforumorg','','#111020151161301591860JavaMailjakartanitrogenmathforumorg',3) Dave L. Renfro - 18 Oct 2006 20:08 GMT [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] The following 3 books would be my top choices for what you're looking for: Margaret E. Baron, "The Origins of the Infinitesimal Calculus"

73. History Of Calculus Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~kgardner/History.html

"Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all." - Martin Gardner A Brief History of Calculus From early to modern times THE ANCIENTS THE FORERUNNERS THE EARLY MODERNS THE LATER MODERNS The Ancients Return to top Pythagoras (c. 580 - 500 B.C.) Though not much is known of this mysterious man, it is almost certain that mathematics began with him. Pythagoras led a half-religious, half-mathematical group who kept most of their discoveries a secret. The Pythagoreans credited all their work to their leader and their mottos became "Everything is number" and "He [Pythagoras] himself has said it". Pythagoras came up with the idea of a mathematical proof, as well as his famous Pythagorean Theorem relating the sides of a right triangle to its hypotenuse. The Pythagoreans discovered irrational numbers, which to them was a disaster because the existance of irrational numbers went against their beliefs. However, this discovery led to opportunities for mathematicians to come. "...three fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge" - J.R.Lowell

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75. CALCULUS Here is a list of some of the best books and most reliable web sites containing information on the history of mathematics and, in particular, the history of calculus. http://www.stewartcalculus.com/media/1_inside_history.php

CALCULUS Author's Welcome About the Author HOME CHAPTERS ... Lies My Calculator... History of Math... Challenge Problems History of Mathematics Here is a list of some of the best books and most reliable web sites containing information on the history of mathematics and, in particular, the history of calculus. Bear in mind that books are edited and reviewed, whereas web sites are not subject to professional scrutiny and so their accuracy is not guaranteed. Books Carl Boyer, The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development (New York: Dover, 1959). Carl Boyer and Uta Merzbach, A History of Mathematics (New York: Wiley, 1987). C.H. Edwards, The Historical Development of the Calculus (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1979). Howard Eves, An Introduction to the History of Mathematics, 6th ed. (New York: Saunders, 1990). C.C. Gillispie, ed., Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York: Scribner's, 1974). Judith V. Grabiner, The Origins of Cauchy's Rigorous Calculus (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1981). Victor Katz, A History of Mathematics: An Introduction (New York: HarperCollins, 1993).

76. Answers.com - What Is The History Of Differential Calculus Calculus question What is the History of differential calculus? http//en http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_History_of_differential_calculus

77. BC Education - Calculus 12 - Overview And History Of Calculus (Historical Develo Calculus 12 Overview and History of Calculus (Historical Development of Calculus) This sub-organizer contains the following sections Prescribed Learning Outcomes http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/math1012/calc12ohch.htm

Calculus 12 - Overview and History of Calculus (Historical Development of Calculus) This sub-organizer contains the following sections: Prescribed Learning Outcomes Suggested Instructional Strategies Suggested Assessment Strategies Recommended Learning Resources PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES It is expected that students will understand the historical background and problems that lead to the development of calculus. It is expected that students will: describe the contributions made by various mathematicians and philosophers to the development of calculus, including: Archimedes Fermat Descartes Barrow Newton Leibniz Jakob and Johann Bernoulli Euler L’Hopital SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES Students gain a better understanding and appreciation for this field of mathematics by studying the lives of principal mathematicians credited for the invention of calculus, including the period in which they lived and the significant mathematical problems they were attempting to solve. Conduct a brief initial overview of the historical development of calculus, then deal with specific historical developments when addressing related topics (e.g., the contributions of Fermat and Descares to solving the tangent line problem can be covered when dealing with functions, graphs, and limits). For additional ideas, see the suggested instructional strategies for other organizers.

78. History Of Calculus History of Calculus On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 104408 EDT, Linear1983 @aol.com wrote Anyone know of any interesting topics in the History of Calculus that would be worth http://omgili.com/newsgroups/sci/math/55615071183992278702JavaMailjakartanitroge

79. Re: History Of Calculus Oct 21, 2006 articles about the development of calculus. in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Arthur Rosenthal, http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.math/2006-10/msg05966.html

Re: History of Calculus From : "Dave L. Renfro" < Date : 21 Oct 2006 20:06:32 -0700 Dave L. Renfro wrote (in part): Also, the references given in the paper I cite in the following post will lead you to quite a few articles about the development of calculus. If you're interested, I could perhaps post some of the article titles listed in that reference, but I can't do this right now because the paper is at home and I'm not. http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=4702130 I got the article out that I was talking about. Using this article, and a little bit of googling, I've collected below some references that are related to the Newton/Leibniz era of calculus. They are listed by journal (and chronologically within each journal's list) for convenience in looking them up in a library, except for a final list of "Other Journals" with some relevant papers from more research oriented journals. The following internet web pages should also be of interest. George Berkeley's influential 1734 essay "The Analyst" http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Berkeley/AnalCont.html

80. 66 History Of Calculus Lesson Plans Reviewed By Teachers Search history of calculus lesson plans to find teacher approved lesson plans. From history of calculus to history of calculus webquest, quickly find lesson plans that inspire http://www.lessonplanet.com/search?keywords=history of calculus&media=lesson

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