1. The History and Development of Calculus
... Archimedes shows that the surface of a sphere is four times that of a great circle, he finds the area of any segment of a sphere, he shows that the volume of a sphere is two-third the volume of the circumscribed cylinder, and that the surface of a sphere is two-third the surfaces of a circumscribed cylinder including its bases. In the second book of this work Archimedes' most important ... of mathematical analysis. In addition to analysis, Leibniz made a number of important discoveries in other fields of mathematics: combinatorics, algebra (the principles of the theory of the determinan...
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