Ask HN: How Was the Calculus Discovered?
What kind of thinking could lead to the discovery of what (to me) looks like a wide variety of "tricks" to preform to an equation.
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> Newton came to calculus as part of his investigations in physics and geometry. He viewed calculus as the scientific description of the generation of motion and magnitudes. In comparison, Leibniz focused on the tangent problem and came to believe that calculus was a metaphysical explanation of change. Importantly, the core of their insight was the formalization of the inverse properties between the integral and the differential of a function.