Torkel Franzen wrote:
Front Office <yomo@terols.com> writes:
Who coined the word 'calculus'? Newton? Leibnitz?
Or some other person?
There is a splendid net resource for this kind of question,
"Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics",
http://members.aol.com/jeff570/mathword.html
There is a longish entry on "calculus".
That is the sort of information I was looking for.
Thanks.
b
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