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  2. History of calculus - Wikipedia

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    The ancient period introduced some of the ideas that led to integral calculus, but does not seem to have developed these ideas in a rigorous and systematic way. . Calculations of volumes and areas, one goal of integral calculus, can be found in the Egyptian Moscow papyrus (c. 1820 BC), but the formulas are only given for concrete numbers, some are only approximately true, and they are not ...

  3. Albert Einstein - Wikipedia

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    Throughout his life, Einstein published hundreds of books and articles. [ 15 ] [ 212 ] He published more than 300 scientific papers and 150 non-scientific ones. [ 11 ] [ 212 ] On 5 December 2014, universities and archives announced the release of Einstein's papers, comprising more than 30,000 unique documents.

  4. Mathematics of general relativity - Wikipedia

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    A discrete version of the Einstein–Hilbert action is obtained by considering so-called deficit angles of these blocks, a zero deficit angle corresponding to no curvature. This novel idea finds application in approximation methods in numerical relativity and quantum gravity, the latter using a generalisation of Regge calculus.

  5. Einstein's thought experiments - Wikipedia

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    1. At 16 years old and a student at the Gymnasium in Aarau, Einstein would have had the thought experiment in late 1895 to early 1896. But various sources note that Einstein did not learn Maxwell's theory until 1898, in university. [7] [8] 2. A 19th century aether theorist would have had no difficulties with the thought experiment. Einstein's ...

  6. Timeline of calculus and mathematical analysis - Wikipedia

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    1684 - Leibniz publishes his first paper on calculus, 1686 - The first appearance in print of the notation for integrals, 1687 - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, 1691 - The first proof of Rolle's theorem is given by Michel Rolle,

  7. Timeline of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of pure and applied mathematics history.It is divided here into three stages, corresponding to stages in the development of mathematical notation: a "rhetorical" stage in which calculations are described purely by words, a "syncopated" stage in which quantities and common algebraic operations are beginning to be represented by symbolic abbreviations, and finally a "symbolic ...

  8. Calculus - Wikipedia

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    Calculus is the mathematical study of continuous change, in the same way that geometry is the study of shape, and algebra is the study of generalizations of arithmetic operations. Originally called infinitesimal calculus or "the calculus of infinitesimals", it has two major branches, differential calculus and integral calculus.

  9. History of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Other important European mathematicians of the 18th century included Joseph Louis Lagrange, who did pioneering work in number theory, algebra, differential calculus, and the calculus of variations, and Pierre-Simon Laplace, who, in the age of Napoleon, did important work on the foundations of celestial mechanics and on statistics.