Now I Will Have Less Distraction.

Although To Penetrate Into The Intimate Mysteries Of Nature And Thence To Learn The True Causes Of Phenomena Is Not Allowed To Us, Nevertheless It Can Happen That A Certain Fictive Hypothesis May Suffice For Explaining Many Phenomena.

In The Meantime, Most Noble Sir, You Have Assigned This Question To The Geometry Of Position, But I Am Ignorant As To What This New Discipline Involves, And As To Which Types Of Problem Leibniz And Wolff Expected To See Expressed In This Way.

A Function Of A Variable Quantity Is An Analytic Expression Composed In Any Way Whatsoever Of The Variable Quantity And Numbers Or Constant Quantities.

For Since The Fabric Of The Universe Is Most Perfect And The Work Of A Most Wise Creator, Nothing At All Takes Place In The Universe In Which Some Rule Of Maximum Or Minimum Does Not Appear.

For The Sake Of Brevity, We Will Always Represent This Number 2.718281828459... By The Letter E.