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		tokenadult on Jan 24, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Long-lost text shows Archimedes had begun to disco... Have you looked at how Newton presented the results of calculus in the Principia?

pixcavator on Jan 25, 2009 [–]

>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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