
''Institutiones calculi integralis'' (''Foundations of integral calculus'') is a three-volume
textbook
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written by
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler ( ; ; ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, and engineer. He founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made influential ...
and published in 1768. It was on the subject of
integral calculus
In mathematics, an integral is the continuous analog of a sum, which is used to calculate areas, volumes, and their generalizations. Integration, the process of computing an integral, is one of the two fundamental operations of calculus,Int ...
and contained many of Euler's discoveries about
differential equations.It was written after
"Institutiones calculi differentialis" (1755) and "Introductio in analysin infinitorum" (1748)
See also
* ''
Institutiones calculi differentialis
''Institutiones calculi differentialis'' (''Foundations of differential calculus'') is a mathematical work written in 1748 by Leonhard Euler and published in 1755. It lays the groundwork for the differential calculus. It consists of a single volu ...
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External links
Full textavailable from
Archive.org
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.
Full text (1768)available from
books.google.com.
provides a complete English translation of Euler's Institutiones calculi integralis by Ian Bruce.
German translation''Vollständige Anleitung zur Integralrechnung'' (1828) available from
e-rara.ch.
1768 non-fiction books
18th-century books in Latin
Mathematics textbooks
Leonhard Euler
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