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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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    Numerical relativity is the sub-field of general relativity which seeks to solve Einstein's equations through the use of numerical methods. Finite difference, finite element and pseudo-spectral methods are used to approximate the solution to the partial differential equations which arise. Novel techniques developed by numerical relativity ...

  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. Einstein function - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, Einstein function is a name occasionally used for one of the functions x 2 e x ( e x − 1 ) 2 {\displaystyle {\frac {x^{2}e^{x}}{(e^{x}-1)^{2}}}} x e x − 1 {\displaystyle {\frac {x}{e^{x}-1}}}

  7. Timeline of calculus and mathematical analysis - Wikipedia

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    1673 - Gottfried Leibniz also develops his version of infinitesimal calculus, 1675 - Isaac Newton invents a Newton's method for the computation of roots of a function, 1675 - Leibniz uses the modern notation for an integral for the first time, 1677 - Leibniz discovers the rules for differentiating products, quotients, and the function of a ...

  8. Function (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In introductory calculus, when the word function is used without qualification, it means a real-valued function of a single real variable. The more general definition of a function is usually introduced to second or third year college students with STEM majors, and in their senior year they are introduced to calculus in a larger, more rigorous ...

  9. History of the function concept - Wikipedia

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    On p. 77 (op. cit.) Bourbaki states (literal translation): "Often we shall use, in the remainder of this Treatise, the word function instead of functional graph." Suppes (1960) in Axiomatic Set Theory, formally defines a relation (p. 57) as a set of pairs, and a function (p. 86) as a relation where no two pairs have the same first member.