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For questions on the use of mathematics in science, industry and everyday life.

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Earliest real-world uses of Calculus and Linear Algebra

Maybe Archimedes' figuring out that the volume of a sphere is 2/3 the volume of the smallest cylinder surrounding that sphere? This work was performed some time in the third century BCE.
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