Editing History of calculus (section)

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{{see also|Chinese mathematics}}
The [[method of exhaustion]] was independently invented in [[Chinese mathematics|China]] by [[Liu Hui]] in the 4th century AD in order to find the area of a circle.<ref>{{cite book|series=Chinese studies in the history and philosophy of science and technology|volume=130|title=A comparison of Archimdes' and Liu Hui's studies of circles|first1=Liu|last1=Dun|first2=Dainian|last2=Fan|first3=Robert Sonné|last3=Cohen|publisher=Springer|year=1966|isbn=978-0-7923-3463-7|page=279|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jaQH6_8Ju-MC}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=jaQH6_8Ju-MC&pg=PA279 Chapter, p. 279]</ref> In the 5th century, [[Zu Chongzhi]] established a method that would later be called [[Cavalieri's principle]] to find the volume of a [[sphere]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Calculus: Early Transcendentals|edition=3|first1=Dennis G.|last1=Zill|first2=Scott|last2=Wright|first3=Warren S.|last3=Wright|publisher=Jones & Bartlett Learning|year=2009|isbn=978-0-7637-5995-7|page=xxvii|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R3Hk4Uhb1Z0C}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=R3Hk4Uhb1Z0C&pg=PR27 Extract of page 27]</ref>