History of Calculus

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  • Issac Newton born

  • Gottfried Leibniz Born

  • Leibniz's first integral

    Leibniz finds the area of a graph under a function y=f(x)

  • Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica published.

  • Newton and Nicolas Fatio de Duillier become friends.

  • Leibniz publishes Supplementum geometriae dimensoriae

    Leibniz expresses the inverse relation of integration and differentiation

  • Guillaume de l'Hôpital publishes Analyse des Infiniment Petits pour l'Intelligence des Lignes Courbes

    Translated "Infinitesimal calculus with applications to curved lines," it was the first textbook on infinitesimal calculus.

  • Nicolas Fatio de Duillier accuses Leibniz of plagerism

  • Royal Society proclaim Newton the inventor of calculus, Leibniz a fraud.

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