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" Book of Changes What are the implications for the role of computers and invention"?

Leibniz in the West was a German scientist and philosopher in the 17th century. Both he and Newton were the creators of calculus. In 1673 Leibniz created a calculation tool in Paris that could perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and square extraction.

In 1701, when Leibniz met with French missionary Bowett, he learned of China's "Book of Changes" and obtained the Eight Diagrams and Sixty-four Diagrams of Zhouyi from the missionaries. At that time, the mathematician was studying binary. He got inspiration from Yi Tu and realized the true meaning of binary numbers.

In 1703, Leibniz, inspired by the ancient Chinese masterpiece "The Book of Changes", wrote the paper "Talking about Binary Arithmetic", which was published in the "Proceedings of the Royal Academy of Sciences". Binary arithmetic is the basis for the advent of epoch-making electronic computers. To this end, Leibniz once wrote excitedly to the then Chinese Emperor Kangxi, requesting naturalization of Chinese nationality. In order to express his admiration for the Book of Changes, he also founded a Chinese Academy in Frankfurt.