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IMC Research Guide-- December 2004 

BOOKS -- DEWEY DECIMAL #s:

Try 92 (Biographies)

920 (Collected Biography)

509 and 510

ONLINE SERVICES

ABC-CLIO world history – biographies, pictures, primary source documents and more.

Britannica Online – Be sure to put  “ “ marks around any search that contains more than one word. On the opening screen check the boxes next to “EB” and “Britannica Internet Guide.”

INTERNET

            If you use the internet, then Google is your search engine of choice.

            TIP:  Select “Advanced Search” and .edu domain.

Try the following sites:

The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive - http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/

The MacTutor History of Mathematics - Links to external pages -- http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/External/external_links.html

Basic Calculus -- http://www.nd.edu/~hahn/part1.html

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# 5 – Calculus of Leibniz

#6 – Calculus of Newton

• "Our" Notation from Their Quarrel: The Leibniz-Newton Controversy in Calculus Texts  -- http://www1.umn.edu/ships/9-1/calculus.htm

• Burndy Library:  Newton's Analysis --  http://dibinst.mit.edu/BURNDY/Collections/Babson/OnlineNewton/Analysis.htm

• Sir Isaac Newton -- http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html

• Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz -- http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Leibniz.html

• Did you Know? --http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/newton.html

• Bernoulli -- http://www.math.purdue.edu/~eremenko/bernoulli.html

• Isaac Newton -- http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/men/newton.html

• Highlights in the History of Calculus -- http://www.southwestern.edu/~sawyerc/cal1/history_of_calculus.htm