Essay rubric/directions: The first person to explicitly formulate the ideas of limits and derivatives was Sir Isaac Newton in the 1660s. But Newton acknowledged that “If I have seen further than other men, it is because I have stoon on the shoulder of giants.” Two of thos giants were Pierre Fermat (1601-1665) and Newton’s mentor at Cambridge, Isaac Barrow (1630-1677). Newton was familiar with the methods that these individuals used to find tangent lines, and their methods played a role in Newton’s eventual formulations of calculus
. Learn about these methods by reading the papers referenced below. Write an essay comparing the methods of the various “giants” and compare these methods to the current methods we use today.
-Isaac Barrows Methos
-Pierre de Fermat and rene descartes methods
https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/218/a-short-account-of-the-history-of-mathematics/5525/isaac-barrow/
https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=wwu_honors
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