From: modernlog@aol.comno-spam (ModernLog)
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: CALCULUS HISTORY
Date: 3 Dec 1998 13:28:39 GMT

 rifurman@aol.com (RIFurman) wrote:

>>I am interested in the origin and early history of calculus. Would 
someone please direct me to some articles or some form of reference,
pertaining to this.<<

Try ant decent university library. A few of the books available on the origin
and history of the calculus include:

Margaret E. Baron, The Origins of the Infinitesimal Calculus (NY, Dover, 1969)
Carl B. Boyer, The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development (NY,
Dover, 1959)

C. H. Edwards, Jr., The Historical Development of the Calculus
(NY/Heidelberg/Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1979)

Judith V. Grabiner, The Origins of Cauchy's Rigorous Calculus (Cambridge,
MA/London, MIT Press, 1981)