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Calculus is a branch of mathematics dealing with continuous change and rates of change. In the 17th century, both Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz independently developed calculus. While Newton developed many of its theorems and applications earlier, Leibniz is credited with inventing calculus. Calculus is now essential for studying physics, chemistry, biology, and other fields involving continuous change.

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Calculus is a branch of mathematics dealing with continuous change and rates of change. In the 17th century, both Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz independently developed calculus. While Newton developed many of its theorems and applications earlier, Leibniz is credited with inventing calculus. Calculus is now essential for studying physics, chemistry, biology, and other fields involving continuous change.

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The Birth of Calculus

What is calculus
Calculus is a field of mathematics that deals with
continuous change and is one of the most
significant branches of mathematics. Infinite
calculus, or "the calculus of infinitesimals," is
another name for calculus.
Calculus is a field of mathematics that deals with
calculating instantaneous rates of change
(differential calculus) and the accumulation of an
infinite number of tiny components to arrive at a
result (integral calculus).
In the 17th century, Isaac Newton and Gottfried
Wilhelm Leibniz created the calculus. Calculus is
currently required for anybody interested in
studying physics, chemistry, or biology. Calculus
problems that were formerly thought to be
impossible to solve have gotten much easier
because to computers.
Two major contributors to the birth of calculus
Isaac Newton
In full Sir Isaac Newton
English physicist,
mathematician and scientist
He is credited with being the
first to create calculus. It's a
step-by-step process, as many
other mathematicians
contributed to the concept.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

A German philosopher,
mathematician, and political
adviser
important both as a
metaphysician and as a
logician and distinguished also
for his independent invention
of the differential and integral
calculus.
History of the Calculus
timeline
Ancient Times
Leucippus, Democritus, and Antiphon all
contributed to the Greek technique of
exhaustion, which was scientifically established
by Eudoxus in 370 BC. The method of
exhaustion is so named because the areas
measured grow to account for more and more
of the needed area.
Archimedes uses the method of exhaustion to
calculate the area of a circle. This is, of course,
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an early example of integration that resulted in
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Renaissance Time
René Descartes, a Frenchman, is frequently regarded as the founder of the modern
school of mathematics. In the mid-17th century, his creation of analytic geometry
and Cartesian coordinates allowed the orbits of the planets to be represented on a
graph, as well as providing the groundwork for the later development of calculus
(and much later multi-dimensional geometry).
Fermat developed various theorems that considerably expanded our understanding
of number theory, as well as some early work on infinitesimal calculus.
Pascal is most famous for Pascal’s Triangle of binomial coefficients, although similar
figures had been produced by Chinese and Persian mathematicians long before him.
Cavalieri had fully developed his method of indivisibles, a way of estimating the size
of geometric forms comparable to integral calculus approaches.
17TH CENTURY Time
Newton‘s teacher Isaac Barrow is usually credited with the discovery (or at least
the first rigorous statement of) the fundamental theorem of calculus
Calculus was created and perfected throughout the ages, beginning with ancient
Greece and continuing until the time of Newton and Leibniz. But when it comes to
who receives credit for "discovering" one of mathematics' most revolutionary
notions, the situation is a little complicated.
The controversy centered on Newton's invention of the notion of calculus in the
mid-1660s. He claims to have originated the fundamental notions of calculus
between 1664 and 1666.
 when Newton began to realize that Leibniz had the ideas of calculus, which he
himself began to realize in the 1770s, Newton’s response to ensure that he
received the credit for calculus was to write a letter to Leibniz.
Conclusion
Calculus is a branch of mathematics that deals with continues change
or rate of change and the accumulation of an infinite number of tiny
components to arrive at a result.
While Newton developed many of the theorems and applications
earlier to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the conclusion is that Gottfried
Wilhelm Leibniz invented Calculus.

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