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Jacques Carette comments on "In what ways did Leibniz’s philosophy foresee modern mathematics?" (16970)

2011-11-08T14:07:26-08:00

Thanks Will. I will try to find the time to re-edit this, but that may not be until tomorrow.

Will Jagy comments on "In what ways did Leibniz’s philosophy foresee modern mathematics?" (16966)

2011-11-08T13:29:17-08:00

Jacques, I cast the last vote to reopen.

Jacques Carette comments on "In what ways did Leibniz’s philosophy foresee modern mathematics?" (16962)

2011-11-08T13:04:59-08:00

@Qiaochu: understood. @Sergey: good points. Will do.

Sergey Melikhov comments on "In what ways did Leibniz’s philosophy foresee modern mathematics?" (16959)

2011-11-08T12:36:30-08:00

Jacques: a (further) example of what I believe is a specific answer is provided by my comments on the Leibniz law. To increase chances for re-opening, perhaps the question can be edited so to as to explicitly discourage 'tea chat' type answers and comments?

Qiaochu Yuan comments on "In what ways did Leibniz’s philosophy foresee modern mathematics?" (16958)

2011-11-08T12:33:13-08:00

My issue with the question is that the OP gives no indication as to what these specific ideas might be, and I like MO questions to be self-contained whenever feasible (or to contain references if not). I would greatly appreciate it if anyone interested in reopening this question edited it to fix this.

Jacques Carette comments on "In what ways did Leibniz’s philosophy foresee modern mathematics?" (16957)

2011-11-08T12:17:09-08:00

I definitely believe that there are some very specific answers that can be given to this question. Leibniz had some quite specific ideas which took a long time to be properly appreciated, and are now explored. So this is much more than a 'tea chat' question, it can be precisely answered.

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/80364/