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In the History of Mathematics it is generally stated that the higher analysis took its rise in the method of indivisibles of Cavalieri (1635). This assertion... is erroneous. ...Leibniz was led to his invention of the algorithm of the higher analysis by a study of the writings of Pascal, more than by anything else.
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C. I. Gerhardt, "Leibniz and Pascal," (1891) Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin as quoted in [https://archive.org/details/earlymathematic01gerhgoog The Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz] (1920) Tr. J.

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