''Institutiones calculi differentialis'' (''Foundations of differential calculus'') is a mathematical work written in 1748 by

Leonhard Euler Leonhard Euler ( , ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in ma ...

and published in 1755 that lays the groundwork for the

differential calculus In mathematics, differential calculus is a subfield of calculus that studies the rates at which quantities change. It is one of the two traditional divisions of calculus, the other being integral calculus—the study of the area beneath a curve. ...

. It consists of a single volume containing two internal books; there are 9 chapters in book I, and 18 in book II. writes that "this is the first textbook on the differential calculus which has any claim to be both complete and accurate, and it may be said that all modern treatises on the subject are based on it."

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''Vollständige Anleitung zur Differenzial-Rechnung'' available from e-rara.ch. Mathematics literature Differential calculus 1755 books Leonhard Euler 18th-century Latin books {{mathpublication-stub

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