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There is some good detail in the Wikipedia article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest




The bottom line is you can’t do calculus without algebra.


Have you looked at how Newton presented the results of calculus in the Principia?


>Have you looked at how Newton presented the results of calculus in the Principia?

No. But I did now and in the light of the new information I would like to rephrase myself: you shouldn’t do calculus without algebra.




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