LLULL AS COMPUTER SCIENTIST OR WHY LLULI WAS ONE OF US

Ton Sales

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona


ABSTRACT

Crucial notions on which Computer Science is based originated in Ramon Llull (a l3th-century philosopher from Majorca). Here we explore some of his original insights -and his plausible inspiration sources- and how these ideas have been available to us by way of Leibniz (and others).