Besides a role in calculus, German Men, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz has a contribution in the development of Symbolic Logic. When small, Leibniz study a range of knowledge in a self-taught. He learned Latin himself when he was eight years old and began studying Greek at the age of twelve. At that time, he was studying the works of Aristotle and became interested in Formal Logic.
At the age of fifteen years, Leibniz became students at the University of Leipzig to study law. He received his bachelor's degree two years later and master the next year and then moved to the University of Nuremberg.
Leibniz received his doctorate in a year. then immediately got an offer Profesorship has repudiated, he said that "There is something else her mind." In addition to legal knowledge, something else is including politics, religion, history, literature, metaphysical, philosophy, logic and mathematics. He worked from the support of many parties, and serve the elite at that time as a lawyer, historian and librarian. At that time, Leibniz was offered under on a librarian at the Vatican which again refused.
Leibniz contribution to logic is his "Universal Character." Leibniz believed, combining logic and mathematics, a symbolic language which can generally be created and thus can help find solutions to scientific problems with errors as small as possible. In this Universal Language, representation and the relation of logic represented by the letters and symbols. In his words "All thruth reason would be reduced to a kind of calculus, and the errors Would only be errors of Computation."
Substance, Leibniz believes when a problem appear in the universal language, the problems would be solved automatically by applying mathematical rules that apply to the symbols.
Leibniz worked in the appraisal of symbolic logic and do not have a career academy again. Systematic assessment of symbolic logic does not run until the nineteenth century.
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