The Western sage Leibniz was a disciple in the field of easy-to-learn mathematical logic

(Author: Ichishuko of the Mingjia School)

I happened to see a phenomenon on the platform, that is, several anchors quoted the scriptures to discuss that a saint was about to appear in the East, as for who is this saint? When will he appear? Where will it appear again? The anchors are out of the blue and chatting a lot. And the viewers are also very interesting, a netizen left a message at the bottom of the video: "I am a saint, hurry up and pay me!" Another netizen interfaced: "Are waiting for you to go out of the mountain to give us money, your wave of reverse operation, everyone can not prevent [laughing cry] [laughing cry] [laughing crying]"

Although it is a joke, it can also be seen that everyone is full of interest in this mysterious saint. Yizhou did not know who this noble man who had not yet appeared was sacred, but looking back at the history of human society's civilization, he found that there were two saints, one in the West and the other in the East, although they were on different sides of the world, but they had the same destination, becoming disciples of different generations and different disciplines of the same ancestor, and their respective academic contributions to the world were very huge, and their influence was particularly far-reaching, and it was indeed worthy of family members to understand.

First of all, let's talk about this Western sage, his name is Leibniz, and netizens who know him know that Leibniz is German, born in Leipzig, Germany on July 1, 1646. The reason why Leibniz was shortlisted for the list of saints is because he invented "binary" mathematics, and the significance of this invention is very far-reaching, because the current electronic computers, smart phones, and the Internet are all built on the academic basis of "binary mathematics", and the powerful functions of electronic computers, smart phones, and the Internet have deeply affected the world. Although Newton in the United Kingdom and Leibniz were on a par with leibniz, his three laws could not be held in the palm of our hands and controlled our lives like smart phones, so Newton's influence was still slightly inferior to Leibniz. And Einstein, a German Jew who proposed the theory of relativity, was a descendant of Leibniz, more than two hundred and thirty years later, and of course cannot be compared with Leidsch.

Throughout, the reason why Leibniz was able to invent "binary mathematics" is actually closely related to "learning from the east to the west". From the seventeenth century until the mid-eighteenth century, China was a very powerful country in the world. As Western missionaries to China passed on Chinese knowledge to Europe, Germany, Britain, France and other Western European powers have set off a boom in learning Chinese culture. Those that were transmitted to the Western Chinese culture, Yixue is especially valued by Westerners, and today in the Vatican Library, there are still fourteen Chinese manuscripts of Western scholars studying the I Ching.

In this environment, Leibniz, who was born in Xiangmendi, because of the collection of books left by his parents, made him easy to learn in his youth and was deeply influenced by it. However, he himself was reluctant to admit it. However, from his academic experience and academic papers, we can still find some clues.

In 1661, at the age of 15, Leibniz entered the University of Leipzig to study law, while he also took philosophy and science. In May 1663 he received his bachelor's degree in "On metaphysical controversies concerning individual principles." Although the content of this paper has not been read by Yizhou, it can be seen at a glance from the title that Leibniz uses the terminology of Western philosophy to interpret the Chinese "Taiji" philosophy. The reason why an eighteen-and-a-half-year-old child can have such a deep attainment should be related to his family origins, because Leibniz's father, himself a professor of ethical philosophy at leipzig University, although the professor died early, but the collection of books and study notes he left behind was enough to lay a solid theoretical foundation for Leibniz. This early paper also laid the ideological foundation for Leibniz's later "monad theory".

From the actual situation, whether it is "individual" or "single", in the eyes of the Confucian school, they are actually "tai chi", and in the eyes of our famous school, they should be called "Taiyi". What about Taoism? Although the names are different, the essence is the same, and they all refer to the most basic building blocks of everything in the universe.

At the age of 20, a doctoral dissertation in Leibniz was rejected by the leipzig university's review committee. Soon after, he came to the University of Altdorf near Nuremberg, where he still defended his doctoral dissertation, eventually earning a doctorate in law from the University of Altdorf and being hired as a professor of law at the university.

In 1667, at the age of 21, Leibniz published his first mathematical treatise, On the Art of Combinatoriality. This is an article on mathematical logic, the basic idea of which is to try to reduce the truth of the theory to a computational result. Although immature, this paper shines with innovative wisdom and mathematical talent, and a series of demonstration work by later generations has made him the founder of mathematical logic, the founder of electronic computers and related fields.

Perhaps friends do not understand this statement very well, to put it in layman's terms, in fact, it is "Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments, two instruments give birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to gossip..." If the "individual" is "combined" according to a certain principle, we will eventually get any result we want. For example, 3D printing, laser cutting, drone detection and so on. Of course, these are all afterwords and have become a reality.

Moving on to the previous topic, when the paper was written, Leibniz began to study how to combine the problem. To tell the truth, the mathematics and logic of Western countries at that time were stronger than our country, and it was precisely with this innate advantage that Leibniz used the method of mathematical logic to creatively deduce the combination of Chinese gua tu: he used the number 1 to replace the gua painting "one", and the number 0 to replace the gua painting "--", and according to the law of change of the gua chart, established the mathematical law of "every two into one" and "borrow one when two", through this law, we can add, subtract, multiply, divide the four operations.

Why does the number 1 represent "one" instead of "--"? Because the "one" of the gua painting represents the broken "--" merging the two into one, converging together, so that the result of continuous aggregation is that something will be formed, so it is represented by "1". In order to facilitate the calculation of the process and results of the aggregation of such subtle things, Leibniz also designed the integral symbol and established the integral theory. This kind of integral science is called "Lianshan" in Yixue.

Conversely, because the "--" represents the aggregated "-" splits in two and splits from it, the result of such a continuous split is that the original thing eventually disappears, as if hidden, so it is represented by "0". In order to facilitate the calculation of the process and results of the splitting of this huge thing, Leibniz also designed differential symbols and established differential calculus. This kind of differential calculus is called "guizang" in Yixue.

In addition, in Yixue, the six gua paintings "-" constitute "Qian" Gua, and the six Gua Paintings "--" constitute "Kun" Gua, and for thousands of years, "Qian" Gua is ranked in front of "Kun" Gua, that is, according to tradition, 1 should be ranked first of 0, so according to this tradition, Leibniz when writing the manuscript of the binary algorithm, the title is "1 and 0, the magical origin of all numbers." This is a wonderful example of creation, for everything comes from God. Today, the manuscript is carefully preserved in the library of the Guota Palace in Turing, Germany.

Therefore, the position ordering of 1 and 0 has a deep meaning in it. It's not that 1 and 0 are indistinguishable from 0 and 1. If you confuse them, it is as if you confuse men and women, the result is that the man goes to the men's toilet, and then meets a woman who comes out of the men's toilet, and then the man thinks that he has gone wrong, so he goes to the toilet on the other side, and ends up in the women's toilet, causing the girl inside to lift her pants while screaming. It can be seen that this order cannot be mistaken, and when we are writing our own article and quoting the title of this manuscript, we must not write "0 and 1, the magical source of all numbers..." In fact, such jokes are now searched for in Baidu search.

After studying the "binary algorithm", Leibniz began to tinker with the gear calculator, this mechanical calculator, the core device is several linked gears and stepped shafts, this ingenious device had before Leibniz was born, but also in Europe has a history of more than three hundred years, the clever Leibniz used this device to create a machine that can automatically calculate four. He also wanted to incorporate binary mathematics into it, but electronics was not yet enlightened, so Leibniz failed to do what he wanted to do. Before his death, Leibniz was still studying China's yixue, and his last unfinished paper was called "On the Natural Theology of Chinese", which is actually an argument that Chinese yin and yang families use yixue to divinate and tell fortunes, so it can be seen that even saints cannot be perfect, and people as smart as Leibniz are still taken by Chinese yin and yang families to the wrong rhythm and fall into the gutter.

In short, because Leibniz studied in both China and the West, he was deeply respected by scholars from all over Europe and many royal families, and he also became a core member of the four major academies of sciences in the world at that time: the Royal Society of England, the French Academy of Sciences, the Roman Academy of Sciences and Mathematics, the Berlin Academy of Sciences, and also became a scientific adviser to many European royal families. Since then, around leibniz, the academic core, Western science and technology have been out of control, and in the short period of more than three hundred years, Europe, including later North America, science and technology have achieved unprecedented prosperity, and finally these science and technology have turned to the east and flowed back to our Chinese homeland. In fact, in the past few hundred years, we have not had a few students studying in the West.

Therefore, Leibniz is not only a teacher for Western bachelors, but also a teacher for our Eastern students. Maybe he himself wouldn't have imagined that he would be so powerful. However, he was also a man who knew gratitude, and mentioned the greatness of Fuxi many times in articles and letters. Fuxi was born in the barbaric era, when there was no writing, only in the form of pictures to interpret the laws of the universe, and Leibniz interpreted Fuxi's thought very well, so Leibniz can be said to be a disciple of Fuxi, but also a disciple who is good at mathematics.

After Leibniz's death, after another two or three hundred years, scholars have invented electron tubes, memory and assembly language, etc., and Leibniz invented binary algorithms, artistic combination, made the first generation of electronic computers, with the transistor, integrated circuits, large-scale integrated circuit digital computers have come out, human civilization soared, so back in history, this Leibniz master is worthy of a far-reaching Western sage.

It is because the European and American countries have rapidly surpassed us in China in this short period of several hundred years, and the most intelligent Han people in China are at a low ebb with the incorporation of the Territory of the Great Qing Dynasty, which has caused a lot of Chinese, and really think that the foreign moon is rounder than our China, in fact, they do not know that in contemporary human civilization, the ideological elements of Chinese easy-to-learn culture have played an important role in it.

Although the gua chart on the I Ching was broken by Leibniz, the Chinese culture is profound and profound, and there is one thing he cannot learn, that is, those gua names written in Chinese characters. There are more than 10,000 Chinese characters, and only 79 gua names on the I Ching, so these Chinese characters are carefully selected, and each word has a deep meaning. Who arranged these 79 roots? According to the records in the "Records of History", he is Ji Chang, the King of Zhou Wen, the King of the Inner Saint and the Outer King, and it can be said that he is the saint of our East, and his learning was inherited from Fu Xi, the ancestor of Chinese humanities. The Yin-Yang schools, Confucianism, Mojia, Mingjia, Dharma, And Taoism in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were all disciples of his disciples. So what are the historical merits of King Jichang of Zhou Wen? This is a long story, if friends and friends want to know, when we have time, we will put it on again.