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

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

   18 Jan 2024: d. y. d. x. Largefrac{dy}{dx}normalsize. dxdy notation of Leibniz in Britain and also contained the integration symbol. ... It is worth noting that despite using Leibniz's notation for the calculus in his earlier works, in this later one Craig used Newton

2. Calculus history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/The_rise_of_calculus/

   18 Jan 2024: Leibniz was very conscious that finding a good notation was of fundamental importance and thought a lot about it. ... Leibniz's notation of. d. d. d and highlighted the operator aspect which proved important in later developments.

3. O'Brien Calculus - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: In Chap. VI the Differential notation of Leibniz is explained,. d. ... In the case of partial differential coefficients, some modification of the common differential notation.

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

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

   3 Mar 2021: LEIBNIZ’s notation in their works on calculus and its applications to physics. ... with which LEIBNIZ became interested in 1673, contains an invalid line of reasoning:.

5. Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   25 Jan 2024: which I learned the notation of Leibniz; and Lagrange's 'Théorie des Fonctions'. ... Under these circumstances it was not surprising that I should perceive and be penetrated with the superior power of the notation of Leibniz.

6. 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

7. Brook Taylor English version PDF (490k)

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

   23 Mar 2021: The underlying series converges considerably faster than the series found by LEIBNIZ (independently of GREGORY):. ... Like LEIBNIZ, who however did not. publish this idea, he used the notation 1 2 3, , ,. y y y for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd,. derivatives of a

8. Ellis Gregory obit - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: Of the early years of Mr Gregory's life but little need be said. ... One of the first results of the differential notation of Leibniz, was the recognition of the analogy of differentials and powers.

9. Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661 - 1704) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

   30 Dec 2023: I have made free use of their discoveries, as well as those of Mr Leibniz, so that I frankly return to them whatever they please to claim as their own. ... Bit the method of Mr Leibniz is much more easy and expeditious, on account of the notation he uses,

10. Emilie du Chatelet English version PDF (516k)

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

    3 Mar 2021: In 1740 her work Institutions de physique appeared, a philosophical examination of the ideas of DESCARTES, NEWTON and LEIBNIZ on topics such as free will and the importance of God's ... Its particular merit lay in the fact that it replaced the notation