Method Of Fluxions (Noun)
Meaning
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.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- Newton's work on the method of fluxions was published as the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica in 1687, although he developed the method earlier.
- The method of fluxions developed by Isaac Newton is different from the method of infinitesimal analysis developed by German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
- The method of fluxions can be applied to physical quantities like acceleration, and density as functions of the distance, mass and so on.
- Calculus includes the method of fluxions that examines how changing the independent variable(s) in the domain affects the function.
- One difference between Newton's method of fluxions and the differential calculus developed by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, which had previously existed is basically different symbols were used by Newton for its publication and were discovered even years after it publication and completion by newton in this great masterpieces by Leibniz much like differential quotients was seen using geometric models based entirely.