Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas: Bressoud, David M.

Calculus Reordered takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story of how calculus evolved into the subject we know today.

David Bressoud explains why calculus is credited to seventeenth-century figures Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, and how its current structure is based on developments that arose in the nineteenth century.

Delving into calculus’s birth in the Hellenistic Eastern Mediterranean―particularly in Syracuse, Sicily and Alexandria, Egypt―as well as India and the Islamic Middle East, Bressoud considers how calculus developed in response to essential questions emerging from engineering and astronomy.