Quotes:Math 419
From Tractatus
Leibniz, Gottfried Whilhem (1646-1716)
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
In G. Simmons Calculus Gems, New York: McGraw Hill Inc., 1992.