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1. John Keill (1671 - 1721) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Keill/

   25 Sep 2023: differentials. Keill responded by accusing Leibniz of plagiarizing Newton in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and Leibniz wrote to the Royal Society asking that he withdraw his accusation. ... Keill maintained his position and Leibniz

2. Taylor versus Continental mathematicians - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Taylor_continental/

   7 Mar 2023: Leibniz wrote to Johann Bernoulli about Taylor's book, which he had read. ... After he had received a copy of the book and had read through it, Johann Bernoulli wrote again to Leibniz:-.

3. 28th April - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miscellaneous/messages/04-28/

   30 Mar 2023: On this day in 1693, Leibniz wrote to de L'Hôpital, announcing his discovery of determinants fifty years before Cramer, who was the real driving force in the development of determinants. ... Leibniz's work had little or no influence because it was not

4. The number e - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/e/

   18 Jan 2024: In that year Leibniz wrote a letter to Huygens and in this he used the notation. ... Whatever the reason, the notation. e. e. e made its first appearance in a letter Euler wrote to Goldbach in 1731.

5. Earliest Uses of Symbols of Calculus - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathsym/calculus/

   7 Mar 2023: Integral. Before introducing the integral symbol, Leibniz wrote omn. for "omnia" in front of the term to be integrated. ... Hamilton wrote the operator as. and it was P. G. Tait who established.

6. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz English version PDF (598k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/leibniz.pdf

   3 Mar 2021: LEIBNIZ’s notation in their works on calculus and its applications to physics. ... derive what is today called the LEIBNIZ series for the number π: 4.

7. Gottfried Leibniz (1646 - 1716) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Leibniz/

   30 Dec 2023: which clarified his theory of knowledge. In February 1686, Leibniz wrote his Discours de métaphysique. ... Leibniz wrote again to the Royal Society asking them to correct the wrong done to him by Keill's claims.

8. 16th April - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miscellaneous/messages/04-16/

   1 Apr 2023: On this day in 1673, Leibniz wrote to Oldenburg about series:-.

9. Harriot and binary numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Harriot_binary_numbers/

   7 Mar 2023: Leibniz is credited with the invention of binary arithmetic, that is arithmetic using base 2. ... Laplace wrote:-. Leibniz saw in his binary arithmetic the image of Creation.

10. function concept - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Functions/

    7 Mar 2023: Leibniz wrote in August 1673 of:-. other kinds of lines which, in a given figure, perform some function. ... Johann Bernoulli, in a letter to Leibniz written on 2 September 1694, described a function as:-.