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Harvard is older than calculus.
Harvard is older than calculus. The college was founded in 1636, while Newton only began developing calculus in the mid-1660s and Leibniz published his version in 1684 — students were graduating before the mathematics in a modern first-year syllabus existed.
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- Harvard College was founded in 1636.
- Newton began developing calculus in the mid-1660s; Leibniz published his in 1684.
- Students were graduating before the maths in a first-year syllabus existed.
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