PREHISTORY OF THE INFINITESIMAL CALCULUS

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angličtina
Original language name
PREHISTORY OF THE INFINITESIMAL CALCULUS
Original language description
The discovery of infinitesimal calculus (one of the most important products of human spirit of all times) is usually attributed to English mathematician and physicist Newton and to German mathematician and philosopher Leibniz. However, the problems of measure of change and of limits had been approached and pondered upon by a range of scholars long before them in the past. This article deals with the developments of this issue from the ancient Greek scholar Archimedes who (although ancient Greeks were scared stiff of infinity) probably lay the foundations of integral calculus by the exhaustion method. In Middle Ages, the considerations of infinitely small quantities caught the eyes of Nemorarius, Bradwardin, and Oresme. At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries the considerations of infinitesimal calculus were on agenda of Kepler and Galilei. And then there followed the era of Newton and Leibnitz who realized that differential calculus and integral calculus are mutually opposing procedures.
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Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
The 12th International Days of Statistics and Economics
ISBN
978-80-87990-14-8
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
297-306
Publisher name
Melandrium
Place of publication
Slaný
Event location
Praha
Event date
Sep 6, 2018
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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