infinitesimal calculus
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of infinitesimal calculus
First recorded in 1795–1805
Example Sentences
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Maths has much older roots: it existed for millennia before Isaac Newton invented infinitesimal calculus as a way to lay the foundations of physics.
From Nature ● Jul. 18, 2017
If the axioms were mutually incompatible, it would seem that the entire edifice of maths — which encompasses a broad range of subfields such as infinitesimal calculus or game theory — was on shaky foundations.
From Nature ● Jul. 2, 2014
They afford yet another great advantage in that the derivation of the results requires only the analytic operations of the infinitesimal calculus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
He invented the infinitesimal calculus which is more suited for such calculations, but had he expressed his results in that language he would have been unintelligible to many.
From History of Astronomy by George Forbes
Along with Sir John Herschel and George Peacock he laboured to raise the standard of mathematical instruction in England, and especially endeavoured to supersede the Newtonian by the Leibnitzian notation in the infinitesimal calculus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
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