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Calculus is one of the most important mathematical discoveries of human kind. There are two major ideas of calculus. ... Calculus has been attributed to successes in mathematics, the physical sciences, engineering, and the social and biological sciences (Hughes-Hallett, vii). Although the basic applications of calculus are used every day in various professions, the beginnings of calculus are unknown to many.
The invention of calculus was many years in the making. Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was one of the inventors of calculus, or as he referred to it, “The Method of Fluxions. ... His solution to the problem, solved by calculating the velocity of a particle moving in any continuous manner, gave him an opportunity to solve the problem of rates and their measurements, also known as differential calculus (Bell, 95).
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