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...irst-order logic is undecidable; Church's thesis; creation of the [[lambda calculus]]

...nd are therefore widely used in [[Financial Mathematics]] and [[Stochastic Calculus]].

...ttle interest, but the really bad news is that virtually all concepts of [[calculus]] are of this sort. For example: * [[Stochastic calculus]]

A '''Boolean algebra''' is a form of logical calculus with two binary operations ''AND'' {{nowrap|(multiplication, •)}} and ''O Boolean algebra has strong connections to the ''propositional calculus'', which relates the truth value of a conclusion to the truth value of the

...d then at [[Edinburgh University]]; he is credited with the discovery of [[calculus]], and was a contemporary of Sir [[Isaac Newton]]. The brother of James Gre

...ch larger class of (not necessarily continuous) functions. Many classical calculus tools, such as [[convolution (mathematics)|convolution]] or [[Fourier trans

====Calculus==== One of Newton's inventions, [[calculus]], which was simultaneously and independently invented by [[Gottfried Wilhe

...tegral [[calculus]] methods, but before the invention of the infinitesimal calculus, they had to be tackled individually. This work made him the leading figure ...De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae'' ('The Reckoning in Games of Chance), on the calculus of probabilities, the first printed work on the subject.

The classical example (in calculus or real analysis) is <math> \mathbb R^d </math>, the ''d''-dimensional [[Eu

The classical example (in calculus or real analysis) is <math> \mathbb R^d </math>, the ''d''-dimensional [[Eu

Most of conventional calculus is based on the operations summation, multiplication, exponentiation and th

...[series (mathematics)|series]] can be found in any present-day textbook on calculus. Probably Cauchy is most famous for his single-handed development of [[comp ...infinitésimal'' [On a new type of calculus analogous to the infinitesimal calculus], Exercises de Mathématique, vol. '''1''', p. 11 (1826)</ref> Cauchy gave

...[series (mathematics)|series]] can be found in any present-day textbook on calculus. Probably Cauchy is most famous for his single-handed development of [[comp ...infinitésimal'' [On a new type of calculus analogous to the infinitesimal calculus], Exercices de Mathématique, vol. '''1''', p. 11 (1826)</ref> Cauchy gave

...ons''' are the most basic [[function|functions]] arising in the study of [[calculus]]. They include the [[polynomial|polynomials]], which are the object of stu

...Mathematical Clash of All Time.'' (2006). 277 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Wars-Leibniz-Greatest-Mathematical/dp/1560259922/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books

...d in mathematics. So, he read [[d'Alembert]]'s article on the differential calculus in the [[Encyclopédie]] and undertook a study of works by [[Leonhard Euler ...s productive in mathematics. Among other things he wrote about variational calculus and about the rest term of the [[Taylor series]] (1806).

...ted mathematical objects with polynomials is an important application of [[calculus]], and is an essential tool in [[numerical analysis]].

...functional language is one that is based on [[Lambda_calculus]]. In lambda calculus variables have single assignment and behave like mathematical functions and

...that bridge between algebra and geometry crucial to the invention of the [[calculus]] and [[Mathematical analysis|analysis]]. ...on|Newton]] and [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]], by applying [[infinitesimal calculus]] to the [[tangent problem]], thus permitting the evolution of that branch

..., which is more advanced in that it needs some knowledge of differential calculus, will be given in the next section. ...sine and cosine for a few specific angles. The application of differential calculus (see later in this article) allows the computation of the function values f