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The origin of calculus was the problem of finding the tangent to a curve. Like most geometric problems, this has an immediate appeal and is very tricky. What is a curve? What is the tangent line? From a straight geometrical point of view both questions are almost impossible.
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Smith, K.T. (1983). Applications. In: Primer of Modern Analysis. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1144-0_1
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