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Things change. The world is in flux. How can one understand a world in which change plays so great a role? The seventeenth-century answer given by Leibniz and Newton is simplicity itself: Study change.
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Priestley, W.M. (1979). Chains and Change. In: Calculus: An Historical Approach. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9349-8_5
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