who discoverd calculus?

Answer 1

Professor Calculus, Tintin's colleague!

Answer 2

Leibniz and Newton pulled these ideas together into a coherent whole and they are usually credited with the probably independent and nearly simultaneous "invention" of calculus. Newton was the first to apply calculus to general physics and Leibniz developed much of the notation used in calculus today; he often spent days determining appropriate symbols for concepts. The fundamental insight that both Newton and Leibniz had was the fundamental theorem of calculus. This theorem and its consequences have proven indispensable in the development of mathematics and the physical sciences.

Answer 3

The origins of integral calculus are generally regarded as going back no further than to the time of the ancient Greeks, circa 200 BC. The Hellenic mathematician Eudoxus is generally credited with the method of exhaustion, which made it possible to compute the areas of regions and the volumes of solids. Archimedes developed this method further, inventing heuristic methods which resemble integral calculus. After him, the development of calculus did not advance appreciably for over 500 years

Answer 4

Leibniz (Germany) and Newton (England) are credited with the development of the calculus.

It has been mentioned that the Greeks used the method of exhaustion and thus calculus but this is incorrect in that there is a little more to calculus than the method of exhaustion.

Now, about SAURABH M's response... It is completely absurd.

Answer 5

Archimedes was the first to use methods that lead to the development of calculus. He already knew how to integrate hundreds of years before Newton. Many researchers think that he did not know how to differentiate, however, the derivative (just like the integral) can also be expressed as an average sum. Since the integral can be expressed as an average sum, it is likely Archimedes probably knew of the derivative too.

So I would say that Archimedes was the first.

SAURABM: Where did you dream up your facts? The only contribution of non-western cultures in Mathematics is zero. I can't think of anything else. I suppose if the non-western cultures continue to lie to themselves enough times, they will start believing it and hope that westerners will too hey?

Answer 6

Issac Newton and Leibniz discovered calculus. And SAURABH M, Aryabhatta is credited for work in the field of trigonometry, not Calculus.

Answer 7

Calculus, like all languages, was invented. Generally Newton is credited but there were many mathematicians working the field including Reimann.

Answer 8

the first use of calculus is reported by Aryabhataa..an indian mathematician of vedic periods.

Like all science there is a mis conception in calculus also. It is beleived that scriptures were taken away to middle east first and then west.


leibnitz studied calculus and drafted it in the form we people know tday.

newton was the head of science in those days so he demanded Leibnitz to have his name in his papaer for it to be published.



For those people who pray Newton...he wasa very ill minded and cheap

Answer 9

Leibniz and Newton certainly contributed, but also check out Leonhard Euler. To quote Laplace, "Read Euler, read Euler. He is master of us all." Wikipedia has a nifty article.

Answer 10

Sir Isaac Newton.. as a way to describe the physics experiments he was conducting...



Super genius!