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2007-06-15 00:13:34 · 5 answers · asked by krysellejean 1 in Science & Mathematics Mathematics

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (also Leibnitz or von Leibniz[1] (July 1 (June 21 Old Style) 1646 – November 14, 1716) was a German polymath who wrote mostly in Latin and French.

Educated in law and philosophy, and serving as factotum to two major German noble houses (one becoming the British royal family while he served it), Leibniz played a major role in the European politics and diplomacy of his day. He occupies an equally large place in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics. He invented calculus independently of Newton, and his notation is the one in general use since. He also discovered the binary system, foundation of virtually all modern computer architectures. In philosophy, he is most remembered for optimism, i.e., his conclusion that our universe is, in a restricted sense, the best possible one God could have made. He was, along with René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza, one of the three great 17th century rationalists, but his philosophy also looks back to the Scholastic tradition and anticipates modern logic and analysis.

Leibniz also made major contributions to physics and technology, and anticipated notions that surfaced much later in biology, medicine, geology, probability theory, psychology, and information science. He also wrote on politics, law, ethics, theology, history, and philology, even occasional verse. His contributions to this vast array of subjects are scattered in journals and in tens of thousands of letters and unpublished manuscripts. To date, there is no complete edition of Leibniz's writings, and a complete account of his accomplishments is not yet possible.

2007-06-15 00:16:34 · answer #1 · answered by DanE 7 · 0 0

It's Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
he was one of the most important scientists of his time.
With his correct name you will easily be able to google him.
A sort of cookies (crackers) is named after him

2007-06-15 00:24:04 · answer #2 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0 0

Leibniz (note the spelling) was the co-inventor of calculus (with Newton, with whom he henceforth feud with as to who was the real inventor). He also discovered the binary system.
But he worked in so many different aspects, medicine, philosophy, his contribution could fill books.

2007-06-15 00:19:15 · answer #3 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 0 0

Just look him on the internet, plenty of stuff out there about him. Perhaps he is best known for his discovery of calculus along the same time as Newton; Newton used the notation y ' for the derivative, while Liebniz used dy/dx instead. To this day, forms like dy/dx are referred to as "Liebniz notation".

2016-05-21 00:53:15 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

I don't understand questions like this. Why not just look up Leibniz on Wikipedia, or use a Google search? You'll get far more information than can be answered in a few lines here.

2007-06-15 00:17:03 · answer #5 · answered by tsr21 6 · 1 2

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