Unit 09: Product Rule

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Let us look at one of the Leibniz papers written around 1680. While Leibniz had struggled in 1673 still with the product rule (he seemed have predated a manuscript from 1675 to 1673 suggesting that he thought about the product and quotient rule already in 1673, he appeared in 1677 to to have solved the puzzle and got the right formula. The following text is from 1680, where things are crystal clear already: