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differentiation and integration Graph of distance traveled versus time elapsed for the motion of an automobileBecause the speed of the automobile is constant in this example (50 kilometres per hour), the graph is a straight line.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician
Tullio Levi-Civita
Italian mathematician

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