True or false: the Historical Note

Exercise and reference answers

Questions

1. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   Leibnitz is credited with the birth of differential equations.

2. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   Leibnitz introduced the integral sign and the dy notation.

3. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   Leibnitz discovered the method of separation of variables.

4. Statement is true

   No

   Statement

   Differential equations began in the twentieth century.

5. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   Leibnitz was working on a problem about tangents to a curve.

Explanation