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1. 29th October - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   7 Mar 2023: On this day in 1675, the integral symbol was first used by Gottfried Leibniz in an unpublished manuscript, Analyseos tetragonisticae pars secunda [Second part of analytical quadrature].

2. Russian/St Petersburg Academy - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   7 Mar 2023: The form of the Academy was imported ready-made from the Berlin model proposed to Peter the Great by Leibniz several years earlier. ... In [3] Gordin:-. argues that Peter took Leibniz's academic structure and used it as the apex of both his educational

3. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (O) -…

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   7 Mar 2023: Leibniz used the phrase "per differentias ordinatarum" in a letter to Newton on June 21, 1677 (Scott, page 155). ... Leibniz used the term ordinata in 1692 in Acta Eruditorum 11 (Struik, page 272).

4. Takakazu Seki (1642 - 1708) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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   23 Nov 2023: Ten years later Leibniz, independently, used determinants to solve simultaneous equations although Seki's version was the more general.

5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz English version PDF (598k)

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   3 Mar 2021: LEIBNIZ’s notation in their works on calculus and its applications to physics. ... . =. 0. )1(n. nn a converges. • As early as 1674, LEIBNIZ used the power series development of the arctangent function to.

6. Matrices and determinants - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   7 Mar 2023: Leibniz used the word 'resultant' for certain combinatorial sums of terms of a determinant. ... Rather surprisingly Laplace used the word 'resultant' for what we now call the determinant: surprising since it is the same word as used by Leibniz yet

7. Bourgain extras - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   8 Dec 2023: These, as well as the expanders, are basic building blocks used in fast derandomization algorithms. ... They have developed and used the toolbox of analysis in ground-breaking and surprising ways.

8. John Craig (1663 - 1731) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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   18 Jan 2024: which contains Leibniz's. d. y. d. x. Largefrac{dy}{dx}normalsize. dxdy notation. This notation is also used in the work he published in 1693, Tractatus mathematicus de figurarum curvilinearum ... It is worth noting that despite using Leibniz's notation

9. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (I) -…

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   23 Jan 2024: 5147). In his 1684 article "Nova methodus pro maximis et minimis" in Acta eruditorum, Leibniz used punctum flexus contrarii (point of opposite flection). ... INTEGRAL CALCULUS. Leibniz originally used the term calculus summatorius (the calculus of

10. History overview - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: What are other examples of notational problems. The best known is probably the notation for the calculus used by Leibniz ands notation lead more easily to extending the ideas of the ... British mathematicians who patriotically used Newton's notation put