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Calculus
Calculus (from Latin calculus, literally "small pebble used for counting on an abacus") is the mathematical study of continuous change, in the same way that geometry is the study of shape and algebra is the study of generalizations of arithmetic operations. It has two major branches, differential calculus (concerning rates of change and slopes of curves), and integral calculus (concerning accumulation of quantities and the areas under and between curves); these two branches are related to each other by the fundamental theorem of calculus. Both branches make use of the fundamental notions of co
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Voltaire called the calculus "the Art of numbering and measuring exactly a Thing whose Existence cannot be conceived."
See Letters Concerning the English Nation p. 152
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― The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development
― The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development
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In making the basis of the calculus more rigorously formal, Weierstrass also attacked the appeal to intuition of continuous motion which is implied in Cauchy's expression -- that a variable approaches a limit.
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― The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development
― The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development
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