1. The History and Development of Calculus
... and brachistochrone),Leibniz, together with Huygens and Jacob and Johann Bernoulli, came quite close to creating the calculus of variations (1686-96).In subsequent works Leibniz indicated (1695) the formula for repeated differentiation of a product and rules for differentiating a number of the most important transcendental functions, and in the years 1702-03 he developed the integration of rational functions. ... of the area of a figure. The relation between differentiation and integration is best illustrated by the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" (which is sometimes known as the "Newt...
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