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For Since The Fabric Of The Universe Is Most Perfect And The Work Of A Most Wise Creator, Nothing At All Takes Place In The Universe In Which Some Rule Of Maximum Or Minimum Does Not Appear.

I Soon Found An Opportunity To Be Introduced To A Famous Professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, He Was Very Busy And So Refused Flatly To Give Me Private Lessons; But He Gave Me Much More Valuable Advice To Start Reading More Difficult Mathematical Books On My Own And To Study Them As Diligently As I Could; If I Came Across Some Obstacle Or Difficulty, I Was Given Permission To Visit Him Freely Every Sunday Afternoon And He Kindly Explained To Me Everything I Could Not Understand.

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.

Logic Is The Foundation Of The Certainty Of All The Knowledge We Acquire.

For The Sake Of Brevity, We Will Always Represent This Number 2.718281828459... By The Letter E.