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==== Egypt ==== Calculations of [[volume]] and [[area]], one goal of integral calculus, can be found in the [[Egyptian mathematics|Egyptian]] [[Moscow Mathematical Papyrus|Moscow papyrus]] ({{circa|1820{{nbsp}}BC}}), but the formulae are simple instructions, with no indication as to how they were obtained.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kline |first=Morris |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wKsYrT691yIC |title=Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times: Volume 1 |year=1990 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-506135-2 |pages=15β21 |language=en |author-link=Morris Kline |access-date=20 February 2022 |archive-date=1 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301150420/https://books.google.com/books?id=wKsYrT691yIC |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Imhausen |first=Annette |title=Mathematics in Ancient Egypt: A Contextual History |title-link=Mathematics in Ancient Egypt: A Contextual History |date=2016 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-7430-9 |page=112 |oclc=934433864 |author-link=Annette Imhausen}}</ref>
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