(via Numberphile) This video features Swagat Saurav Mishr discussing the research of Professor P.P.Divakaran, and the very early history of calculus in India.
The witch of Agnesi, you may be disappointed to know, is a curve that math students generally learn about in calculus class. It doesn’t look much like a witch, or a hat or even a broomstick. It’s ...
"This new Dover edition first published in 1959 is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published in 1949 under the title: The concepts of the calculus." ...
If you have read Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver—the first volume of his Baroque Cycle (2003)—you will remember the smell of the age he recreates: Wet ink, gossip, gunpowder, and the new arrogance of ...