Notable Enough, However, Are The Controversies Over

A Function Of A Variable Quantity Is An Analytic Expression Composed In Any Way Whatsoever Of The Variable Quantity And Numbers Or Constant Quantities.

Thus You See, Most Noble Sir, How This Type Of Solution To The Königsberg Bridge Problem Bears Little Relationship To Mathematics, And I Do Not Understand Why You Expect A Mathematician To Produce It, Rather Than Anyone Else, For The Solution Is Based On Reason Alone, And Its Discovery Does Not Depend On Any Mathematical Principle.

In The Meantime, Most Noble Sir, You Have Assigned This Question To The Geometry Of Position, But I Am Ignorant As To What This New Discipline Involves, And As To Which Types Of Problem Leibniz And Wolff Expected To See Expressed In This Way.

After Exponential Quantities The Circular Functions, Sine And Cosine, Should Be Considered Because They Arise When Imaginary Quantities Are Involved In The Exponential.

The Kind Of Knowledge Which Is Supported Only By Observations And Is Not Yet Proved Must Be Carefully Distinguished From The Truth; It Is Gained By Induction, As We Usually Say. Yet We Have Seen Cases In Which Mere Induction Led To Error. Therefore, We Should Take Great Care Not To Accept As True Such Properties Of The Numbers Which We Have Discovered By Observation And Which Are Supported By Induction Alone. Indeed, We Should Use Such A Discovery As An Opportunity To Investigate More Exactly The Properties Discovered And To Prove Or Disprove Them; In Both Cases We May Learn Something Useful.