Calculus notation
By Hal 2001 (P3046) on Tuesday, January
16, 2001 - 04:47 pm :
Who developed the dy/dx notation and f'(x) notation? and which
is used most often for calculus?
By Dan Goodman (Dfmg2) on Tuesday,
January 16, 2001 - 08:47 pm :
The dy/dx notation is due to Leibniz who formulated the
calculus in terms of infinitessimals (i.e. infinitely small numbers). This
roughly corresponds to the modern notion of non standard analysis. The y'
notation is due to Newton and his development of the calculus roughly
corresponds to the modern Weierstrass
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analysis.
By Hal 2001 (P3046) on Wednesday,
January 17, 2001 - 08:10 am :
Thanks Dan!