Timeline for Meaning of historical fluxion notation
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| Sep 5, 2014 at 13:11 | history | edited | Marcus Johnson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2014 at 2:21 | answer | added | user21349 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 12, 2014 at 22:21 | history | edited | Andrés E. Caicedo |
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| Jun 28, 2013 at 15:53 | answer | added | user34840 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 13, 2013 at 21:18 | comment | added | Qfwfq | @Ryan Budney: I think the concept of "fluxion" just used to indicate derivative w.r.t. time, and the "differential" was a different concept (small change in the variable). So it made sense to write $dx=\dot{x}dt$ | |
| Jun 13, 2013 at 21:14 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | The notation is equivalent to thinking of the derivative as the linear approximation to the function. You need a new variable because the derivative varies from point to point. | |
| Jun 13, 2013 at 21:14 | answer | added | Qfwfq | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 13, 2013 at 21:07 | history | asked | Marcus Johnson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |