Think what the calculus has done for us. It took well over a thousand years to come up with it.
Think what the calculus has done for us. It took well over a thousand years to come up with it.
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The bits and pieces of calculus were known during that time, such as the method of exhaustion.
Would Newton and Leibniz have developed calculus if there weren’t physics problems they wanted to solve?
Math languished for centuries until Christian Western civilization found a need to develop it more.
re: “Think what the calculus has done for us. It took well over a thousand years to come up with it.”
LOST in time: The Antikythera Mechanism.