Nevertheless, in the esoteric history of differential philosophy, three names shine forth like bright stars: Salomon Maimon who, paradoxically, sought to ground post Kantianism upon a Leibnizian reinterpretation of the calculus ); Hoe'ne Wronski, a profound mathematician who developed a positivist, messianic and mystical system which implied a Kantian interpretation of the calculus ); and Jean BordasDemoulin who, in the course of reflections upon Descartes, offered a Platonic interpretation of the calculus.