Mengoli's mathematical ideas in Leibniz's excerpts
Mengoli's mathematical ideas in Leibniz's excerpts
Dedicated to the memory of Jacqueline StedallIn the seventeenth century many changes occurred in the practice of mathematics. An essential change was the establishment of a symbolic language, so that the new language of symbols and techniques could be used to obtain new results. Pietro Mengoli (1626/7–86), a pupil of …