Timeline for What motivated scientists to define quantities at a point?
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| Aug 26, 2022 at 13:00 | vote | accept | Harshit Rajput | ||
| Aug 26, 2022 at 10:25 | answer | added | Conifold | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 26, 2022 at 8:40 | comment | added | Michael Bächtold | If I understand this questions correctly, it seems to ask what motivated people to come up with differential calculus. (Since one could replace your example of density, mass and volume, with the example of instantaneous velocity, traveled distance and time, or any other three physical quantities x,y,z that satisfy x=dy/dz). So although it is an interesting question, I suspect that it is too broad. | |
| Aug 25, 2022 at 15:02 | history | asked | Harshit Rajput | CC BY-SA 4.0 |