“The absolute requisites for the study of this work… are a knowledge of algebra to the binomial at least, plane and solid geometry, plane trigonometry, and the most simple part of the usual applications of algebra to geometry.
…A. De Morgan. London July 1, 1836”

— Augustus De Morgan

The Differential and Integral Calculus (1836)

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