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Just curious: What mid-twentieth century calculus notation is being used here?
by vortico 11y ago
Just curious: What mid-twentieth century calculus notation is being used here?
- jordigh 11y agoThe same we use today. I suppose the complaint was to hint that mathematics that is older than 50 years is too old for modern tastes, but most of our modern notation was already established at the start of the 19th century. Even Euler uses almost completely modern notation, about 250 years ago.
- jameshart 11y agoOne slightly obscure notation is for the evaluated definite integral - square brackets suffixed with the integral range.
- jordigh 11y agoOh, I didn't even notice that. I encounter that notation frequently enough, but it wasn't the one I was taught in high school. Kind of hard to do a web search for its origins. I tried and failed.
- retbull 11y agoI recognized it immediately but each math teacher I had in college used different notation for the definite integral. I really did think it was common. I need to study more math.