THE EARLY MATHEMATICAL MANUSCRIPTS OF LEIBNIZ. This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a …

Evil may be taken metaphysically, physically and morally. Metaphysical evil consists in mere imperfection, physical evil in suffering, and moral evil in sin.

Leibniz's phenomenalism (or immaterialist metaphysics) connects theory of substance, theory of perception and dynamics under a general theory of monads. Thus, for Leibniz, substance and its …

Every four-point ellipsis . . . . indicates the omission of a brief passage that seems to present more difficulty than it is worth. My topic here will be the monad, which is just a simple substance. By calling …

In many ways, abstract algebra began with the work of Abel and Galois on the solvability of polynomial equations by radicals. The key idea Galois had was to transform questions about elds and …

Against those tempted to portray Leibniz as a progressive westerner stranded in an intellectual backwater, this thesis argues that Leibniz was in essence a German philosopher – or, far more …

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton were geniuses who lived quite different lives and invented quite different versions of the infinitesimal calculus, each to suit his own interests and purposes. …