Jamie Smith

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The mathematical world adopted Leibniz’s symbols—the letter d, as in dx or dy, and the long s written as f (the initial letter of summa)—and the name calculus integralis (which had been suggested to Leibniz by Jakob Bernoulli I in 1690) and these dominated mathematics textbooks into the late twentieth century.
The Discoverers (Knowledge Series Book 2)
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