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differentiation and integration Integral region graphThe shaded region, bounded by the vertical lines t = a, t = b, the t-axis, and the graph of f, is denoted by a bf(t)dt. Finding the areas of irregular regions was one of the motivations for the discovery of the calculus. Leibniz's model of integration
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Integral region graphThe shaded region, bounded by the vertical lines t = a, t = b, the t-axis, and the graph of f, is denoted by a bf(t)dt. Finding the areas of irregular regions was one of the motivations for the discovery of the calculus.
Leibniz's model of integration
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Lebesgue, portrait by an unknown artist, 1929
Henri-Léon Lebesgue
French mathematician
Johann Friedrich Pfaff
German mathematician

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