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Think of it this way: The mathematical capstone of most undergrad non-math-major courseloads is Calculus II, which focuses on mathematics largely developed by N
by derleth 15y ago
Think of it this way: The mathematical capstone of most undergrad non-math-major courseloads is Calculus II, which focuses on mathematics largely developed by Newton and Leibniz, as modified by Riemann.
That takes you all the way to the mid 19th Century for what little of Riemann's work the course focuses on, with the bulk (Newton's and Leibniz's contributions) coming from almost two centuries earlier.
- _delirium 15y agoIt's pretty common these days to include a dynamical-systems course in the math core for science majors, which is largely 1960s-70s developments. Beyond that I think information theory often tends to be treated as more an area of engineering than math, along with digital signal processing, to take another common example. So it's usually taught by engineering or CS departments if by anyone. At schools with a strong mathematical bent to their engineering/CS departments there are usually good courses on both, though.
- stiff 15y agoThis is a rather simplistic account. Newton and Leibniz neither started nor finished the development of calculus, they just happened to make the connection between differentiation and integration which opened up the way for the spectacular development of the subject in later years and Leibniz invented some of the notation we still use, but there was lots of progress before and lots of progress since then, especially regarding logical foundations of the subject and a big part of it is now incorporated in the undergraduate curriculum. Linear-algebra based multi-variate calculus is pretty common in universities now too and it wasn't well developed before the 20th century.