Name: The History of Calculus
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Course Textbook

Integrals

The Math of Building a Whole Back Up from Infinite Pieces

An integral builds a whole back up out of infinitely many pieces. This course textbook starts with rectangles under a curve and does not stop until that one idea is computing volumes, arc lengths, work, and probability.

42 sections
12 interactive widgets
546 hints
342 worked solutions

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Cover of The History of Calculus: Twenty-Three Centuries, About Thirty People, by Megan Warren.

Companion Reader

The History of Calculus

Twenty-Three Centuries, About Thirty People

Most textbooks give the history two sentences. Newton and Leibniz invented calculus, they had a fight about it, now here is the power rule. Both sentences are true and both are badly misleading. The tangent problem and the area problem had been worked on for roughly two thousand years before either man was born.

12 chapters
340 dated events
11 appendices and a glossary
Companion to both calculus courses

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