History Calculus Math

History Calculus Math

Development of calculus ideas began in ancient Greek times starting Archimedes in around 225 BC used the exhaustion method, that was previously developed by Zeno, Eudoxus and others, to prove that the area of a segment of parabola can be derived from knowing the area of circumscribed parallelogram. This finding relates to integral calculus. Applications of calculus have expanded from finding areas of curved shapes to biology to profit optimization and on to engineering applications.

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Why Do We Study Calculus? - Explains, in everyday language, the developments in astronomy, math, and physics that contributed to the discovery of differential calculus and its relationship to area formulas.
Earliest Uses of Calculus Symbols - Gives background for notations that are commonly used like the integral and delta signs.
The History Of Calculus - Topics include the discovery of infinity concepts by Zeno, area approximation methods, Descartes' approach to finding normal lines, and finally Newton and Leibniz proving The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Time period discussed is from the 5th century

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