calculus
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While the prediction proved prescient, Musk’s investment has changed the calculus.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
They unpack David Ellison’s calculus, the potential ripple effects, and more.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2026
Although he once thought owning a home would be a way for him to achieve independence and build wealth, Yaghoobians has changed his calculus.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
A few weeks later my dad saw “Stand and Deliver,” the inspiring movie about high-school math teacher Jaime Escalante, who pushed his inner-city students to excel in Advanced Placement calculus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
It would be many years before mathematicians began to free calculus from its mystical underpinnings, for the mathematical world was busy fighting over who invented calculus.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz both “died in excruciating pain while suffering from calculi — a bladder stone for Newton, a kidney stone for Leibniz”.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2019
Midway through Infinite Powers, Steven Strogatz writes that Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz both “died in excruciating pain while suffering from calculi — a bladder stone for Newton, a kidney stone for Leibniz”.
From Nature ● Apr. 1, 2019
Surely we should reap some flourishing revenue from fashion and credulity, when we find our government awarding £5000 to a certain Johanna Stephens for her discovery of certain medicines for the cure of calculi!
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
In many cases, when these horses have died, calculi have been found in some part of the alimentary canal.
The locality, size, and color of vesical calculi have been demonstrated in my own experience.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
“Do I think I underestimated some factors and overestimated some others? Sure. Do I think that there were calculations and calculuses that I made? Yes,” Porter went on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2024
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