__ 1675: __Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫ in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation that's still in use today. Leibniz was a German mathematician and philosopher ...

SOPH. Ant. 322 et seq. “MANY things are wonderful,” says the Greek poet, “ but nought more wonderful than man, all-inventive man!” And surely, among many wonders wrought out by human endeavor, there ...

If you have read Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver—the first volume of his Baroque Cycle (2003)—you will remember the smell of the age he recreates: Wet ink, gossip, gunpowder, and the new arrogance of ...

THIS book seems well adapted to serve as a text-book for a first course in the differential and integral calculus. Fourteen chapters deal with the differential calculus and its applications to maxima ...