Did Isaac Newton invent Calculus?
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Gottfried Wilhelm von LEIBNIZ\n(1646-1716)  . \n\n \n Leibniz, sometimes called the last universal genius, invented at least two things that are essential for the modern world: calculus, and the binary system. \nModern physics, math, engineering would be unthinkable without the former: the fundamental method of dealing with infinitesimal numbers. Leibniz developed it around 1673. In 1679, he perfected the notation for integration and differentiation that everyone is still using today. \n\nThe bit and the binary system he invented around 1679, and published in 1701. This became the basis of virtually all modern computers. \n\nLeibniz' final years were overshadowed by a priority fight with the powerful president of the Royal Society, Isaac Newton, who claimed he had invented calculus before Leibniz (without publishing it), and who made friends sign texts he wrote to support this claim.
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There would be two schools of thought there;  The first being that maths is logic, there can be no invention by definition of logic.  The second being that mathematics is, if you will, only the language invented by humankind in order to utilise the discovery of intrinsic logic. E.g.; something is the opposite of nothing. Something as well as something are somethings. The real Question is; which came first? (We'll tolerate neither chicken nor egg jokes from the peanut gallery thnx)
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If you don't count the abacus, which is ancient, then Blaise Pascal invented the first mechanical computation machine in France in 1642. Check it yo!\n\nhttp://www.thocp.net/hardware/pascaline.htm
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Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion were first published in his work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687). Newton used them to prove many results concerning the motion of physical objects. In the third volume (of the text), he showed how, combined with his law of universal gravitation, the laws of motion would explain Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
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Leibniz may have been the first computer scientist and information theorist. Early in life, he discovered the binary number system (base 2), the one subsequently employed on all computers, then revisited that system throughout his career. On Leibniz and binary numbers, see Couturat (1901: 473-78). Leibniz anticipated Lagrangian interpolation and algorithmic information theory. His calculus ratiocinator anticipated aspects of the universal Turing machine. In 1934, Norbert Wiener claimed to have found in Leibniz's writings a mention of the concept of feedback, central to Wiener's later cybernetic theory.\n\nIn 1671, Leibniz began to invent a machine that could execute all four arithmetical operations, gradually improving it over a number of years. This machine attracted fair attention and was the basis of his election to the Royal Society in 1673. A number of such machines were made during his years in Hanover, by a craftsman working under Leibniz's supervision. It was not an unambiguous success because it did not fully mechanize the operation of carrying. Couturat (1901: 115) reported finding an unpublished note by Leibniz, dated 1674, describing a machine capable of performing some algebraic operations.\n\nLeibniz was groping towards hardware and software concepts worked out much later by Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, 1830-45. In 1679, while mulling over his binary arithmetic, Leibniz imagined a machine in which binary numbers were represented by marbles, governed by a rudimentary sort of punched cards.[2] Modern electronic digital computers replace Leibniz's marbles moving by gravity with shift registers, voltage gradients, and pulses of electrons, but otherwise they run roughly as Leibniz envisioned in 1679. Davis (2000) discusses Leibniz's prophetic role in the emergence of calculating machines and of formal languages.
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Issac Newton\n\nGallileo however proved that gravitational 'time to fall'was the same for 2 objects of different weights. Gallileo died 11 months before Newton's birth. There work was very complimentary. Newton established the gravitational constant that both backs up Gallileo and demonstrated that it is also gravity that causes the planets to orbit the Sun. The apple under the tree is a bit of a myth!
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These links explain the story behind the calculus and the influence of Huygens and Leibniz.
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Differentiation and integration are mathematical operations applied to polynomial functions.\n\nThe first is differential calculus, which is concerned with the instantaneous rate of change of quantities with respect to other quantities, or more precisely, the local behavior of functions. This can be illustrated by the slope of a function's graph. The second is integral calculus, which studies the accumulation of quantities, such as areas under a curve, linear distance travelled, or volume displaced. These two processes act inversely to each other, as shown by the fundamental theorem of calculus.\n\nThese operations are frequently used solve complex scientific problems, for instance, in the physics area. fundamental advances in calculus during the 17th and 18th century had a deep impact on the ensuing development of physics. Today, calculus is used in every branch of the physical sciences, in computer science, in statistics, and in engineering; in economics, business, and medicine; and as a general method whenever the goal is an optimal solution to a problem that can be given in mathematical form.
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Aryabhatta.... he invented "0"... without which we would not know maths or physics as it is today... and oh yeah... the computers would not be there without the 0s and 1s.
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to get an extra credit, maybe?\n\n---\n\nseriously, I cannot figure out how you can study calculus without knowing limits: even if you only deal with numerical procedures, every iterative formula, or better, EVERY FORMULA (such as those used to find the roots of a non-linear equation, approximated integrals, derivatives and so on) needs a preventive study for convergence conditions: this involves limits!\n\nOne more step back: DERIVATIVE IS A LIMIT ! How can you apply it without knowing what it is?
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this may be somewhat subjective, eh?\n\n1) Euclid's work\n2) Isaac Newton's calculus\n3) ___________________ (open for discussion) The Pythagoreans? Archimedes? The development of Algebra from al-jah-bra...dang - i'm anxious to see the other answers
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square and triangle areas introduces by archemides beside circle\nall other shapes areas and volumes came as a resul fo calclus which invented by sir issac newton\nin 800-1500 muslims contributed a lotin circular geometry and arc lengths so they build mosqe with alot of arcs and domes in it \nwhat i wrote abouve is to my kowlege and ont enough for ur project so this site may help \nhttp://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/Math/default.asp
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A little is known about Newton's pre-teen years, other than that he attended day schools in the neighbouring villages of Skillington and Stoke. In August 1653, when Newton was 10, the Reverend Smith, his step father died and Isaac's mother returned to Woolsthorpe. At the age of 12, Newton was sent to grammar school in Grantham. Here he got the standard education of the time, which included Latin and Greek, and some Bible studies - taught at the time to reinforce the Protestant faith in England. He was placed in the bottom class at Grantham, but a playground fight that he won due to sheer spirit began a rise to the top of the school.\n\nNewton set out for Cambridge early in June 1661, matriculating to Trinity College
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Leibniz and Newton pulled these ideas together into a coherent whole and they are usually credited with the probably independent and nearly simultaneous "invention" of calculus. Newton was the first to apply calculus to general physics and Leibniz developed much of the notation used in calculus today; he often spent days determining appropriate symbols for concepts. The fundamental insight that both Newton and Leibniz had was the fundamental theorem of calculus. This theorem and its consequences have proven indispensable in the development of mathematics and the physical sciences.\n\nWhen Newton and Leibniz first published their results, there was some controversy over whether Leibniz's work was independent of Newton's. While Newton derived his results years before Leibniz, it was only some time after Leibniz published in 1684 that Newton published. Later, Newton would claim that Leibniz got the idea from Newton's notes on the subject; however examination of the papers of Leibniz and Newton show they arrived at their results independently, with Leibniz starting first with integration and Newton with differentiation. This controversy between Leibniz and Newton divided English-speaking mathematicians from those in Europe for many years, which slowed the development of mathematical analysis. Today, both Newton and Leibniz are given credit for independently developing calculus\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus\n\nNewton and Leibniz are usually credited with the invention, independently of one another in the late 1600s, of differential and integral calculus as we know it today. Their most important contributions were the development of the fundamental theorem of calculus. Also, Leibniz did a great deal of work with developing consistent and useful notation and concepts. Newton was the first to organize the field into one consistent subject, and also provided some of the first and most important applications, especially of integral calculus.\n\nMuch of the controversy centers on certain early manuscripts of Newton's that Leibniz may have had access to. Newton began his work on calculus at least as early as 1666, giving plenty of time for this to occur, as Leibniz did not begin his work until 1676. Leibniz was in England in 1673 and 1676, and probably did see some of Newton's manuscripts. It is not known how much this may have influenced Leibniz. Both Newton and Leibniz claimed that the other plagiarized their respective works. In fact, they may very well have influenced one another, but it is now widely accepted that the two developed their ideas mostly independently.\n\nThe work of both Newton and Leibniz is reflected in the notation used today. Newton was responsible for the  and the  notations, both very common in physics and mathematics. Leibniz was responsible for the  notation that is also very popular, particularly for problems in multivariate calculus.\n\nfor a more detailed info visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_v._Leibniz_calculus_controversy
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This goes back to the famous story where Newton was sitting under a tree and he saw an apple fall.  Whether or not that is true, it says that he made the connection that the same force that caused the apple to fall was the force that caused the moon to orbit the Earth.  From there, he developed the Universal Law of Gravitation.  \n\nThis was all published in his masterpiece: Principia Mathematica.  It was published in 1687, although he had the work finished a lot earlier.  He was afraid to publish it.
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sir isaac newton. the man who "discovered" the law of gravity.
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Knowing trig makes learning calculus easier.