{"id":3291,"date":"2012-07-01T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T15:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2012-07-01T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T15:28:37","slug":"happy-birthday-leibniz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/07\/01\/happy-birthday-leibniz\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Leibniz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3292\" title=\"220px-Gottfried_Wilhelm_von_Leibniz\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2012\/07\/220px-Gottfried_Wilhelm_von_Leibniz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"195\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz&#8217;s 366th birthday. Thanks to him for his mathematical contributions.<\/p>\n<p>How has Leibniz impacted your life?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716) one inventor of the Calculus, invented the Stepped Reckoner, was born 1 Jul <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/C5OV162N\">http:\/\/t.co\/C5OV162N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Maths History (@mathshistory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mathshistory\/status\/219360466714116097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz&#8217;s 366th birthday. Thanks to him for his mathematical contributions. How has Leibniz impacted your life? When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/07\/01\/happy-birthday-leibniz\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/07\/01\/happy-birthday-leibniz\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-math"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gbww-R5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}