Example sentences for: calculus

How can you use “calculus” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Game theory was a somewhat fashionable pursuit for mathematicians in those postwar days, when it looked as if it might do for military science and economics what Newton's calculus had done for physics.

  • The only justification for bombing Iraq is the crude utilitarian calculus: violence now by the West should help to prevent future violence, on a far greater scale, by Saddam."

  • This gave Newton time to get to the patent office and file his claim for calculus, before Leibniz could figure out what had happened.

  • This calculus becomes important in this story as both President Clinton and President Bush chose not to seek a declaration of war on Bin Ladin after he had declared and begun to wage war on us, a declaration that they did not acknowledge publicly.

  • The inventions of the calculus by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz in the later 17th century were stimulated by physical problems such as planetary orbits and optical calculations.


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