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"Leibniz’s interest in this area can be traced back to his 1666 Dissertatio De Arte Combinatoria — an extended version of his doctoral dissertation in which he
by spynxic 10y ago
"Leibniz’s interest in this area can be traced back to his 1666 Dissertatio De Arte Combinatoria — an extended version of his doctoral dissertation in which he explores what was known as the 'art of combinations'."
Does this refer to the branch of mathematics which is called Combinatorics today?
- danielmorozoff 10y agoSort of, it has to do with a generalizable philosophy on combining underlying pieces of thought in order to argue any concept. This was popularized by Ramon Lull, and discussed in the article. He focused primarily on religion and conversion to the Christian faith (a primer to answer any question about god/religion ) for example. It turns out he also had interests in computation on recently discovered work ~2001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull In the Arte Combinatoria Leibniz basing on these ideas makes forays into mathematical combinatorics, and did a bunch of unpublished work (Nachlass) in the area yielding some results that were not published for many years later. For example partition of n into k published by Euler later. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0315086074900329 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/03150860749...