Also, more than half the mathematicans who ever lived are alive today, and they are expanding the numerous branches of mathematics at something like 250,000 published theorems per year! All these new fields require their symbols, too!
This tendency increased in strength, and even in those early years he elaborated the idea of a general arithmetic, with a universal language of symbols, or a characteristic which would be applicable to all reasoning processes, and reduce philosophical investigations to that simplicity and certainty ...