Calculus

The readings for this section is an article will reveal the large number of mathematicians making significant contributions to the new concepts. Note also how one mathematician built upon the other taking steps of logic that would be scorned today.

1. Early Calculus - I (~245KB)
2. Early Calculus - II (~330KB)
3. Early Calculus - The Role of Barrow (~184KB)
4. The Calculus of Newton and Leibniz (~292KB)
   
   On the internet ...
   
5. Leibnitz - the complete Leibniz texts of volume VII,3 on progressions,
   series, and differences in chronological order. (in German)
   

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