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Bonaventura Cavalieri
A seventeenth-century Italian mathematician who devised one of the most helpful tools known to mathematics. Many students take this tool for granted, but it is because of the proof above that students are permitted probe the domain of Newtonian Differential Calculus. Click here to learn the proof.
This mathematician is so important that he established the path to what you call Integral Calculus.
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