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History of Calculus

By jollykate
  • Descartes

    Descartes

    Started the way on modern mathematics
  • Pierre de Fermat

    Pierre de Fermat

    Famous for his last Theoram, couldn't prove it though. It was proven in 1997, for an award of $50 000.
  • Isaac Barrow

    Isaac Barrow

    First Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Math was NOT primarily studied at university in those days.
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    There were many disputes involving his work on Calculus .
  • Gottfried Liebniz

    Gottfried Liebniz

    He is the father of Binary, and he developed the calculus we use today.
  • Period: to

    Euler

    Worked with the Bernouilli's, who developed the method known as L'Hopital's rule.