Session 4 :: Between Renaissance and Age of Reason

Repetitio :: Between Antiquity and Rennaissance Narratio :: Wheat and chessboard legend Questio :: What is an algorithm ? Lectio :: Between renaissance and Age of R...

"Oh emperor, my wishes are simple. I only wish for this. Give me one grain of rice for the first square of the chessboard, two grains for the next square, four for the next, ...

What is an algorithm ?

algorithm (n.) ...

a procedure for solving a mathematical problem in a finite number of steps that frequently involves repetition of an operation a step-by-step procedure for solving a prob...

polymath at 23-years of age, his dreams pose him in front of a question: Quod vitae sectabor iter? establishement of scientific method (based on "doubitatio") ...

"I should like you to consider that these functions (including passion, memory, and imagination) follow from the mere arrangement of the machine’s organs every bit as natural...

...makes computer graphics possible...and much, much more...

polymath in 19years of age started to build first mechanical calculators ("Pascalines") ground-breaking works in mathematics (Pascal's triangle), geometry (Pasca...

one of the last big polymaths advanced disciplines of philosophy (monadology, theodicea, why is there something rather than nothing?), mathematics (probability theory,...

"... it is beneath the dignity of excellent men to waste their time in calculation when any peasant could do the work just as accurately with the aid of a machine." (G.W.L, 1...

Please read :: http://bildung.digital.udk-berlin.de/prolegomena/handouts/Leibniz.pdf from letter of Leibniz to Duke of Braunschweig (1697)