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> with the same rigour as Leibniz and Tony Hoare

I think that may be the first time that has ever been written (not least because Leibniz was no model of rigour …).




Correct and, now that I think about it, funny.

Leibniz of course turned out to be right (or had the right intuition) but he failed to provide rigorous definitions of limits, functions, etc.

I only made the connection as some models of assignment I've seen use a rule of syntactic substitution from Leibniz in the method of proof.

Rigorous if you're a programmer not used to using proofs.




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