Week 11: Crossing Worlds
Leibniz, Bouvet, and the documented exchange behind a popular story
3 May 2027
The sourced timeline behind the “I Ching predicted binary computing” story — starting from the binary-counting detail week 6 already flagged — and where the popular version overstates it.
Outline#
- the documented Leibniz–Bouvet timeline, 1679–1703
- the live scholarly debate over how independent Leibniz’s own work was
- where the popular story compresses a documented exchange plus an open question into a single settled claim
Teaching team
- Marisol Quaye — convenor