CALCULUS - help... (1 Viewer)

[canisay_Elvis]

Hey all!
I have been set an assessment on the history and invention of calculus. Just wondering if anybody knows anything about this. Any info would be helpful and VERY appreiciated!
thankyou thankyou thankyou

 

[Heinz]

Just look up isaac newton, it all started with him.

 

[Xayma]

Leibnez also developed calculus independantly of Newton. He also developed the ∫ f(x) dx notation, the product rule for differentiation and other bits and pieces.

 

[Slidey]

Leibnez > Newton. Newton was a pansy Englishman.

Oh, and take a look at Xeno's Paradoxes. The Greeks were so damn close to inventing Calculus.

 

[cj_bridle]

research for maths??? that must suck

 

[acmilan]

Is this assignment worth anything?

 

[velox]

Leibnez was too slow, he was a perfectionist. Newton beat him by like 6 weeks right? For publishing the book i mean.

 

[sneaky pete]

newton developed it first but he was such a slowass he hardly published shit, if you want post newton/leibniz check for a bloke called bernoulli

 

[Slidey]

Leibnez did not know anything about Netwon's Calculus at the time. Leibnez submitted his stuff faster, but Newton was more prominent. Both developed different "forms" of Calculus, so to speak. The two are merged now. Leibnez focused on differential.

Newton was a paranoid nutcase was scared that the pbulishers would reject his work - one of his works made a publisher go bankrupt, so he didn't want that to happen again.

*sigh* HERE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calculus

Now go own that assignment.

 

[Wild Dan Hibiki]

=/ ...... his....tor......y? in.....ven....tion....?

am i in the wrong forum?

 

[canisay_Elvis]

yes itdoes suck. hugely. and it's an assessment worth 20%. 1 am tuesday morning, im still writing. its due in...10 hours!

 

[:: ck ::]

wot kinda bullshit assignment is this...

OMGAWSH THEY'VE BEGUN CORRUPTING MATHS JUST AFTER THEY CORRUPTED THE SCIENCES... NOOOOO

 

[zergcave]

NEWTON INVENTED CALCULUS

he was an insane nut.
he is the scientest famous primarily for dveloping calculus and the laws of motion.