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Considering that Leibniz was truly a gifted child of the Age of Enlightenment and a philosopher, scientist, mathematician, diplomat, physicist, historian, politician, librarian and lawyer, who has left behind an opus of written documents that requires one whole dedicated Leibniz archive, I was indeed astonished by the tone of the author - comparing himself with Leibniz :)

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I was actually surprised he didn't feel superior to Leibniz. I use Wolfram's products, but I absolutely can't stand the persona.

Yeah seriously; a fragment of the first sentence:

I’ve been curious about Gottfried Leibniz for years, not least because he seems to have wanted to build something like Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and perhaps A New Kind of Science as well

I don't think I've ever encountered hubris of that level before.

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