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Definition of Method of fluxions

1. Noun. The part of calculus that deals with the variation of a function with respect to changes in the independent variable (or variables) by means of the concepts of derivative and differential.

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Literary usage of Method of fluxions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"One was that Newton had not said the last work on the subject: improvements in the method of fluxions had been made since Newton, and the subject was ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Ever since that time the method of fluxions,9 as a distinct method, has become almost obsolete ; and it is now strange to read Newton's own assertion in the ..."

3. Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton by Sir David Brewster (1855)
"HIS DISCOVERIES COMMUNICATED TO ENGLISH AND FOREIGN MATHEMATICIANS—THE METHOD OF FLUXIONS AND QUADRATURES—ACCOUNT OF HIS OTHER MATHEMATICAL WRITINGS— HE ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1894)
"He gives a brief description of his own procedure, mentioning his method of fluxions, which, he says, was communicated by Barrow to Collins about the time ..."

5. A History of the Conceptions of Limits and Fluxions in Great Britain, from by Florian Cajori (1919)
"Colson's translation from the La*in ol Newton's Method of Fluxions, published in 1736, was followed in 1737 by a second translation, which 1 A Treatise of ..."

6. Elementary Illustrations of the Differential and Integral Calculus by Augustus De Morgan (1899)
"THE method of fluxions. The foregoing process contains the method employed by Newton, known by the name of the Method of Fluxions. ..."

7. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"That the differential method is one and the same with the method of fluxions, excepting the name and mode of notation; Mr. Leibnitz calling those quantities ..."

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