The Dream of a Universal Language: Leibniz, Characteristica Universalis, and the Quest to Code Knowledge

A deep dive into Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's grand project—the Characteristica Universalis—an attempt to express logic, math, science, and even metaphysics with a single symbolic language. We trace its roots, why it remained unfinished, its influence on modern formal systems (from Boolean algebra to UML and ISO symbols), and the surprising Gödel connection that keeps the dream alive today.

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