Calculus Quote by Bertrand Russell

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

— Keith Devlin

“The Greeks couldn't do this neat little mathematical trick. They didn't have the concept of a limit because they didn't believe in zero. The…

— Charles Seife

“Calculus was not math. It was a fucking science experiment gone wrong.”

— Abbi Glines

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for…

— David Bressoud

If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything but zero.…

— Leonhard Euler

“As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one about it…

— Bill Bryson

History was easy, but I don't know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed.

— Stephenie Meyer

All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.

— Anaxagoras

“Leibniz's calculus had the same power as Newton's, and thanks to its notation, even a bit more. Nevertheless, underneath all the mathematics, Leibniz's differentials…

— Charles Seife

Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our technology would…

— Stanislaw Ulam

“Yet in another way, calculus is fundamentally naive, almost childish in its optimism. Experience teaches us that change can be sudden, discontinuous, and wrenching.…

— Steven Strogatz

“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier , Kepler ,…

— Anonymous