1. The History and Development of Calculus
... published until 1736. Many of Newton's critical insights occurred during the plague years of 1665-1666 which he later described as, "the prime of my age for invention and minded mathematics and [natural] philosophy more than at any time since." It was during his plague-induced isolation that the first written conception of Fluxionary Calculus was recorded in the unpublished ... is neither impeded by fractional nor irrational quantities, and a remarkable type of calculus for them") in Acta Eruditorum, the journal of the learned society Akademie der Wissenschaften, founded by Leibniz, ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate