The Mind of Leibniz

Acknowledgments v; List of Figures, Tables, and Theorems xi; List of Illustrations xii; Introduction: 1; Ad Summam; Chapter I 15; The Evolution of Choice: Destiny and Disparities Consilio, non impetu; Concepts of Intelligence 15; Intelligence Measurement 18; Potential and Kinetic Theory 18; Leibniz' Youth 20; The Century of Genius 21; The Human Brain 23; Chapter II 27; Law, Politics, and Patronage; Frusta laborat qui omnibus placere studet; Louis XIV and French Rationalism 29; The Young Polymath and Huygens 30; The House of Brunswick 31; Holland and Paris 32; Leibniz' Correspondence 33; Parisian Sojourn 33; Whitehead and the Seventeenth Century 35; Chapter III 39; Analysis Situs and First Principles; Alle Anfang ist Schwer; Leibniz and the First Cause 40; The Union of Mathematics and Philosophy 41; A Universal Language 41; Subject-Predicate Reasoning 42; Leibniz and Descartes 43; Early Concept of Partition Series 43; Locke, Explicit and Implicit Substance 44; Chapter IV 49; Methodology and Mentality: The Structure of Thought; Veritas Temporis Filia; Annalen der Physik and Neurology 49; The Brain, IQ, and Intelligence 50; Factor Analysis and the Genetic g 51; Leibnizian Diversity and Cartesianism 52; Language and the I Ching 55; Concomitant Harmony and Infinity 59; Chapter V 65; Mathematica Universalis: Theoretical Intelligence; Sapiens Qui Prospicit; Cognitive Enhancers and Nutrition 65; Kinetic and Potential Intelligence 66; Some Comparative Mathematicians 66; Pierre de Fermat 67; Jacob and Johann Bernoulli 69; Probability Theory 70; Blaise Pascal 71; Music, Mathematics, and ti 72; DNA and Dyads 73; Gregor Mendel and Carl Jung 77; Leibniz and Mathematics 80; Infinite Series, Irrationals, and Primes 81; Partition Series 83; Ramanujan and Partition Series 84; Leonhard Euler 85; Prime Number Ascendancies 86; Cartesian Analysis and Imaginary Numbers 87; Chapter VI 95; The Great Newtonian Controversy: Lemma v. Theorems; Genie Universalis; Newton and Leibniz: Boyhood and Youth 96; Parallels Between Two Careers 97; Prisms, Photons, and Galileo 98; The Cartesian Miracle 99; The Magic of Functions 103; Plague, Fire, and Genius 107