Abstract
It was Leibnitz who first used the elongated ‘s’ (for ‘summa’) as the symbol for an integral. If y is a function of x
means ‘the integral of y with respect to x’.
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Perry, O., Perry, J. (1982). Integral Calculus. In: Mastering Mathematics. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16709-8_18
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