1. The History and Development of Calculus
... gives results on tangents to the spiral as well as finding the area of portions of the spiral. In the work on conoids and spheroids Archimedes examines paraboloids of revolution, hyperboloids of revolution, and spheroids obtained by rotating an ellipse either about its major axis or about its minor axis. The main purpose of the work is to investigate the volume of ... segments of these three-dimensional figures. Archimedes is proposed as creating the first calculus by stating the problem (finding the area of parabola) as an infinite series. The ... Bernoulli, came quite close to c...
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