The grand sweeping results that solve so many problems so easily (integration of a polynomial being a prime example) hide a long conceptual struggle. But awareness of this struggle can be a useful reminder for us. It took some 1,250 years to move from the integral of a quadratic to that of a fourth- degree polynomial. But the problems that we study in calculus-areas and volumes, related rates, position/velocity/acceleration, infinite series, differential equations-had been solved before Newton or Leibniz was born. No two people have moved our understanding of calculus as far or as fast. What marks Newton and Leibniz is that they were the first to state, understand, and effectively use the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. The subject would continue to evolve and develop long after their deaths. Newton and Leibniz drew on a vast body of knowledge about topics in both differential and integral calculus. The body of mathematics we know as calculus developed over many centuries in many different parts of the world, not just western Europe but also ancient Greece, the Middle East, India, China, and Japan.

Newton and Leibniz were brilliant, but even they weren’t capable of inventing or discovering calculus. When we give the impression that Newton and Leibniz created calculus out of whole cloth, we do our students a disservice. The timing and inauguration of the exhibition has followed the guidelines set by the Government and Health Authorities with regard to combating Covid-19, as has been happening in the previous exhibitions.History has a way of focusing credit for any invention or discovery on one or two individuals in one time and place. > sans-serif font-weight: normal '> gratuitous and open to the general public, from Monday to Friday from 10h to 12h and from 14h to 19h. Polytechnic of Lisbon for the promotion of the Arts, the Space Arts-Polytechnic of Lisbon, has been a great bet of the institution, in the dissemination of cultural, artistic and scientific activities of diverse natures, namely exhibitions, conferences, colloquia, concerts, film projections and other presentations that arise in the academic community.

', is the third exhibition, of eight planned by Paulo Morais Alexandre, pro-president for the Arts of the IPL, responsible for the dynamisation of the cultural space situated in the services of the chairmanship of the Politecnico of Lisbon, in Benfica. On the day of its centenary, June 18, the Polytechnic of Lisbon attributes the Archimedes da Silva Santos, to posthumous title, to Medal of Silver of Emeritus and Merit by Services Present to IPL, First Class.

With curatorship of Luísa Duarte Santos (daughter of the honoree), Miguel Falcão (lecturer of the Superior School of Education of Lisbon) and Vanda Nascimento (teacher of the Higher School of Dance), and design of Cátia Rijo (ESELX docent), the exhibition has been conceived and prepared to be itinerant in different institutions and contexts of the country in some way connected to the honoree pathway. Archimedes da Silva Santos was a coordinating professor at the Higher School of Dance, where he held up to the reform in 1991, having exercised other posts and been responsible for the creation of the Education branch aimed at the formation of Dance teachers. The Politecnico of Lisbon associates itself with the centenary celebrations of this unique figure of culture, defender of teaching and artistic formation, linked to the teaching of the arts and teaching of these at the Polytechnic of Lisbon.

Archimedes as a space pioneer