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John L. Berggren
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Professor of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. Author of Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam.

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difference between average and instantaneous rates of change
Calculus, branch of mathematics concerned with the calculation of instantaneous rates of change (differential calculus) and the summation of infinitely many small factors to determine some whole (integral calculus). Two mathematicians, Isaac Newton of England and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz of…
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