Calculus

[Kemp Randy-W18971]

It was originally Leibniz.  Please refer to the link (which I found at www.northernlight.com, using keywords leibniz philosophy) at http://www.utm.edu/departments/artsci/ppr/phil/fieser/110/unit7/leibniz.htm

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From: Tim Daneliuk [mailto:tundra at tundraware.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 1:00 PM
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Subject: Re: Calculus


Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote:
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> Wait a minute!  Wasn't Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz one of the founders of Calculus?  And wasn't he also a philosopher, who with his world of monads, said that this is the best of all possible worlds?  And didn't the gentlemen direct his question to the Python group?  In essence, he is following the philosophy of Leibniz.

I thought it was Voltaire who said we live in the best of all possible
world (in 'Candide')...

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