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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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    Albert Einstein (/ ˈ aɪ n s t aɪ n /, EYEN-styne; [4] German: [ˈalbɛʁt ˈʔaɪnʃtaɪn] ⓘ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics.

  4. Calculus - Wikipedia

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    Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism and Einstein's theory of general relativity are also expressed in the language of differential calculus. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] : 52–55 Chemistry also uses calculus in determining reaction rates [ 61 ] : 599 and in studying radioactive decay.

  5. Mathematics of general relativity - Wikipedia

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    Regge calculus is a formalism which chops up a Lorentzian manifold into discrete 'chunks' (four-dimensional simplicial blocks) and the block edge lengths are taken as the basic variables. 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 ...

  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. List of scientific publications by Albert Einstein - Wikipedia

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    Einstein's scientific publications are listed below in four tables: journal articles, book chapters, books and authorized translations. Each publication is indexed in the first column by its number in the Schilpp bibliography (Albert Einstein: Philosopher–Scientist, pp. 694–730) and by its article number in Einstein's Collected Papers.

  8. History of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    [145] [146] It has been argued that certain ideas of calculus like infinite series and taylor series of some trigonometry functions, were transmitted to Europe in the 16th century [6] via Jesuit missionaries and traders who were active around the ancient port of Muziris at the time and, as a result, directly influenced later European ...

  9. History of physics - Wikipedia

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    Albert Einstein (1879–1955), photographed here in around 1905. In 1905, a 26-year-old German physicist named Albert Einstein (then a patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland) showed how measurements of time and space are affected by motion between an observer and what is being observed. Einstein's radical theory of relativity revolutionized science ...