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The Calculus of Wikipedia

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on September 18, 2007 - 9:26am.
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Sure there are problems with Wikipedia but where else do you find out that some of the most important principles of calculus were around in 1800 bc in ancient Egypt (and required for the building of the pyramids) and other ideas about spherical volumes and infinitesimals were being debated by mathematicians in 5th century AD China and India?