Dr. Pangloss was inspired by Gottfried Leibniz, a great polymath and pioneer in early computer science, who in his mathematical work derived methods for determining minima and maxima of functions and invented the calculus in order to do so, which upset Isaac Newton who thought Leibniz had stolen his work.
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“does anyone in this audience know who the inspiration for Dr pangos was livets livets here is um a manuscript by godfried livet uh great polymath mathematician Pioneer in what we would now think of as computer science uh and this is a paper in which he derived a method for determining Minima and Maxima of functions and in order to do so he had to invent the calculus”
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