Sunday, March 28, 2010

Leibniz and the calculus (1646-1716)

Leibniz was a very important part in the history of philosophy and science. He founded the calculus along with Sir Isaac Newton. He was also one of the discoverers of the Binary Notation.
He was a German and was obsessed to find a ‘universal language’. He said “It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation, which could be safely relegated to anyone else if machines were used”.
He also brought about the Monads.

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