《The I ching"Have any implications on computer and invention?

Western leibniz is the 17 th-century German scientists, philosophers, he and Newton is the founder of calculus.Leibniz in Paris in 1673 created a can add, subtract, multiply and divide and the calculation of the root operation tools.

In 1701, leibniz and French missionaries in China met bao Witt, learned that China's "book of changes", and from the hand of the missionaries of the zhouyi eight diagrams and the sixty-four hexagrams figure.The mathematician is studying the binary.He was inspired from the easy to figure, to realize the essence of a binary number.

In 1703, leibniz under the inspiration of the ancient Chinese classics "book of changes", wrote a paper about binary arithmetic, published in the journal proceedings of the Royal Academy of sciences.Binary algorithm is the landmark of the foundation of the electronic computer.To this end, leibniz had excitedly wrote to the Chinese emperor kangxi, request to join Chinese nationality.In order to express the "book of changes" of respect, he's still in the city of Frankfurt has created a Chinese school.