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Praise for Calculus

Calculus is one of the most important breakthroughs in modern mathematics, answering questions that had puzzled mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers for more than two thousand years. In particular, calculus gave a clear and precise definition of infinity, both in the case of the infinitely large and the infinitely small. It provided an answer to Zeno’s paradoxes and gave the first clear definition of what Aristotle called “the quality of motion”.