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Cavalieri's principle
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English
Etymology
Named after Bonaventura Cavalieri.
Proper noun
en geometry A development of the method of indivisibles, dealing with two-dimensional area or three-dimensional volume based on the intersections of lines or planes surrounding a region. It was an early step toward integral calculus.
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