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Sort 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 Lul
by danielmorozoff 10y ago
Sort 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In the Arte Combinatoria Leibniz basing on these ideas makes forays into mathematical combinatorics, and did a bunch of unpublished work (Nachlass) in the area yielding some results that were not published for many years later.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...