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CALCULUS

• Calculus (Latin, a small stone used for counting) is a branch in mathematics focused on limits, functions, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series.

• This subject constitutes a major part of modern mathematics education. It has two major branches, differential calculus and integral calculus.

• Calculus is the study of change. May 09, 2013

While some of the ideas of calculus were developed earlier in Egypt, Greece, China, India, Iraq, Persia, and Japan, the modern use of calculus began in Europe, during the 17th century, when Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz built on the work of earlier mathematicians to introduce its basic principles. The development of calculus was built on earlier concepts of instantaneous motion and area underneath curves. May 09, 2013

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