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The History of the Calculus and its Conceptual Development. Dover. ISBN 0-486-60509-4. OCLC 643872. Zbl 0095.00302. Republication of a 1939 book (2nd printing in 1949) with a different title. Calinger, Ronald (1999). A Contextual History of Mathematics. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 978-0-02-318285-3. OCLC 40479696. Reyes, Mitchell (2004).
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Differential equations are an important area of mathematical analysis with many applications in science and engineering. Analysis is the branch of mathematics dealing with continuous functions , limits , and related theories, such as differentiation , integration , measure , infinite sequences , series , and analytic functions .
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (or Leibnitz; [a] 1 July 1646 [O.S. 21 June] – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who is credited, alongside Sir Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics, such as binary arithmetic and statistics.
Calculus is a branch of mathematics focused on limits, functions, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series. This subject constitutes a major part of contemporary mathematics education . Calculus has widespread applications in science , economics , and engineering and can solve many problems for which algebra alone is insufficient.
Indian mathematics emerged in the Indian subcontinent [1] from 1200 BCE [2] until the end of the 18th century. In the classical period of Indian mathematics (400 CE to 1200 CE), important contributions were made by scholars like Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Bhaskara II, Varāhamihira, and Madhava.
Boyer wrote the books The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development (1959), [6] originally published as The Concepts of the Calculus (1939), [7] History of Analytic Geometry (1956), [8] The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics (1959), [9] and A History of Mathematics (1968). [10] He served as book-review editor of Scripta Mathematica ...
Originally called infinitesimal calculus or "the calculus of infinitesimals", it has two major branches, differential calculus and integral calculus. The former concerns instantaneous rates of change , and the slopes of curves , while the latter concerns accumulation of quantities, and areas under or between curves.