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1. Pierre Varignon (1654 - 1722) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Varignon/

   7 Mar 2023: In 1687 Varignon published Projet d'une nouvelle méchanique which studied composition of forces using Leibniz's differential calculus in the study of mechanics. ... This was surprisingly soon after Leibniz's two articles on the new differential calculus

2. L'Hôpital: "Analyse des infiniment petits" Preface -…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/LHopital_Preface/

   7 Mar 2023: But M Leibniz's use of the characteristic makes his calculus much simpler and quicker, and sometimes also proves very helpful. ... M Leibniz's characteristics but he also completely rejects second, third and further differences.

3. Pierre de Varignon PDF (755k)

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   1 Oct 2022: GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ on differential calculus, published in the previous years, could be applied to problems of mechanics. ... In 1696 GUILLAUME DE L'HOSPITAL's Analyse des infiniment petits was published, the first book on LEIBNIZ's differential

4. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (D) -…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/d/

   23 Jan 2024: th. or 19. th. centuries. DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS. The term calculus differentialis was introduced by Leibniz in 1684 in Acta Eruditorum 3. ... CALCULUS. DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION. Leibniz used the Latin aequationes differentiales in Acta Eruditorum, October

5. Jakob Hermann (1678 - 1733) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hermann/

   7 Mar 2023: Leibniz had published his ideas on the differential calculus in 1684 and, two years later, his ideas on the integral calculus. ... Bernhardt Nieuwentijt (1654-1718) was a Dutch philosopher and mathematician who was highly critical of Leibniz's

6. l'Hopital PDF (607k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/de_lhopital.pdf

   23 Jun 2021: calculus with application to curved lines), the first book on LEIBNIZ's differential calculus. ... After the success of his book on differential calculus, L'HÔPITAL also planned a volume on integral calculus, but abandoned the idea when he learned that

7. Theodore Strong (1790 - 1869) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Strong/

   7 Mar 2023: in 1815 he used Leibniz's differential notation. ... The use of Leibniz's approach, as developed by Laplace and Lagrange, was used by Strong in his papers from about 1825 onwards so he participated actively in the introduction of

8. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (M) -…

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   7 Mar 2023: Maclaurin's series appears in English in 1825 in An Elementary Treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus by Rev. ... Mathematicians writing in Latin used these words. Finding maxima and minima was one of the topics in Leibniz's first publication

9. Biography of Mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Reflections_on_Mathematics/

   7 Mar 2023: The concept of limit is the foundation of Newton's and Leibniz's Infinitesimal Calculus, so that the method of exhaustion can be considered as the germ of this important chapter ... Its first formulation and general resolution gave rise to the

10. Andrea Tacquet (1612 - 1660) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Tacquet/

    7 Mar 2023: Andrea Tacquet's parents were Agnes Wandelen, who came from Nuremberg, and Pierre Tacquet from Antwerp. ... his writings and the fact that in many ways his approach was important in preparing the way for Newton and Leibniz's integral and differential