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Did the Maclaurin series for sine and cosine unsettle Indian mathematicians?

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Who was the first person in history to calculate the limit $\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}\left(1+\dfrac{1}{n}\right)^n$?

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Did any mathematicians of the time (the 17th Century) try out an intermediary between Bernoulli's and Nieuwentijdt’s infinitesimals?

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How did the idea of a formal derivation emerge?

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Ab-initio method (First principle of Mathematics)

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Was Newton's method of finding derivatives of his fluents based on applying the chain rule?

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