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The dot was introduced as a symbol for multiplication by Leibniz. On July 29, 1698, he wrote in a letter to Johann Bernoulli: I do not like X as a symbol for multiplication, as it is easily confounded with x.
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Gottfried Leibniz
Age: 70 †
Born: 1646
Born: July 1
Died: 1716
Died: November 14
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.
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If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
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God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.
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