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The fundamental limiting processes of calculus are integration and differentiation. Isolated instances of these processes of calculus were considered even in antiquity (culminating in the work of Archimedes), and with increasing frequency in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. However, the systematic development of calculus, started only in the seventeenth century, is usually credited to the two great pioneers of science, Newton and Leibnitz. The key to this systematic development is the insight that the two processes of differentiation and integration, which had been treated separately, are intimately related by being reciprocal to each other.1
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Courant, R., John, F. (1989). The Fundamental Ideas of the Integral and Differential Calculus. In: Introduction to Calculus and Analysis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8955-2_2
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