I'm going to report about the integral symbol tomorrow. i want to ask, where did the "integral" term got its name?

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anonymous · Answer

The term "integral" comes from rings of algebraic integers - the study of which motivated the abstraction of many algebraic structures (rings, domains, fields, modules, groups, etc), e.g. see

anonymous · Answer

To finish my sentence, http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/362/history-of-the-concept-of-a-ring/915#915

anonymous · Answer

thank you so much :)

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anonymous · Answer

Ahh ok. I see :D