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When minds of first order meet, sparks fly, even across the centuries. The fundamental theorem of calculus, to be discussed in this chapter, is the result of such a pyrotechnic fusion of ideas. When Leibniz and Newton met Eudoxus and Archimedes, the calculus was rounded out into a whole. By the end of the seventeenth century it was becoming evident that calculus was not a bag of unrelated tricks but was an entity complete unto itself.
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Priestley, W.M. (1998). The Integrity of Ancient and Modern Mathematics. In: Calculus: A Liberal Art. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1658-2_7
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