Early Calculus
Early Calculus
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My old Calculus text (Johnson and Kiokemeister) says that Calculus was "well known" before Newton and Liebnitz. Alright, known by whom? Any proof anyone?
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RE: Early Calculus
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But in checking Wikipedia, it states in a section titled 'History':
"Modern calculus was developed in 17th-century Europe by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, but elements of it have appeared in ancient India, Greece, China, medieval Europe, and the Middle East."
It then goes on to provide more details about the 'Ancient' and 'Medieval', as well as 'Modern' origins of Calculus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus
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If he had done it later, he would have received the Nobel Prize for Math. (+ for physics, astronomy, optics, etc.)
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"This inspired Kepler to study how to calculate areas and volumes and to write a book about the subject, Nova stereometria doliorum vinariorum (New solid geometry of wine barrels), which was his main contribution to the development of the integral calculus."
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The Nobel Prize itself doesn't include the field of mathematics.
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Modern mathematicians don't hesitate to create new symbology as they go along.
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This is the root of the myth that no one would fund Columbus because the world was flat.
If the unknown continent had not been in the way, there was no chance that the technology at the same could sustain such a long voyage at sea.
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I heard that Columbus pushed (tweeted?) the idea that the world was smaller than people had calc'd, since the ships of the day couldn't manage the full voyage (they could barely manage to get to the US), though I think they knew enough about the tradewinds to use them efficiently.
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