... mathematician, poet, lawyer, and alchemist Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716). Mathematical Methods for Physical and Analytical Chemistry 1.2. DIFFERENTIALS AND DERIVATIVES 5 quantity ... topics included in this book, a student would likely have needed to take separate courses in linear algebra, differential equations, numerical methods, statistics, classical mechanics, and ... topics that tend to be shortchanged in a typical intro-ductory calculus course: numerical methods, complex numbers, and Taylor series. Parts II (Statistics), III (Differential Equations), and...