Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz:
Also spelt as (von) Leibnitz.
(Leipzig, 1 July 1646 – Hanover, 14 November 1716).
Versatile German mathematician, philosopher, logician, physicist, historian, jurist and diplomat, considered one of the greatest thinkers of the 17th century. He developed more or less simultaneously with, but independently of, Isaac Newton a branch of mathematics known as ‘analysis’ (differential and integral calculus). Which of the two was first with this important contribution to mathematics led to a tremendous feud between the two gentlemen. Leibniz is known as a forerunner of the Aufklärung, the German Enlightenment.
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