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Gottfried Leibniz
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Gottfried Leibniz
is responsible for lots of stuff:
differential calculus
and
integral calculus
, especially the basic notation that we use today;
the
product rule
of calculus may be called the
Leibniz rule
or
Leibniz law
;
differentiation under the integral sign
?
follows the
Leibniz integral rule
;
identity of indiscernibles
?
may be called the
Leibniz law
;
a version of
infinitesimals
sometimes regarded as a precursor to
synthetic differential geometry
;
a philosophy involving ‘monads’, from which we get the names of both the
monads
of category theory and the
infinitesimal neighbourhoods
of
nonstandard analysis
.
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Revised on May 23, 2013 21:48:10 by
Toby Bartels
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