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#OTD in 1675. Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus representing an elongated S, from the Latin word summa, and the d used for differentials ({\frac {dy}{dx}}), from the Latin word differentia.

Leibniz expressed the inverse relation of integration and differentiation, later called the fundamental theorem of calculus, by means of a figure in his 1693 paper Supplementum geometriae dimensoriae.... via npub1kvnpp3m60derhwpqwc09zhk3ehk48tr6agc6dk9z2vggu9sga28qpxhm73 (npub1kvn…hm73)

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