Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a 17th-century German polymath and philosopher who co-invented calculus and made foundational contributions to logic, metaphysics, and mathematics.

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logician
mathematician
philosopher
polymath
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academicDegree doctorate in law
birthDate 1646-07-01
birthPlace Electorate of Saxony
Leipzig
coInventorOf differential calculus
infinitesimal calculus
integral calculus
countryOfCitizenship Electorate of Saxony
Holy Roman Empire
deathDate 1716-11-14
deathPlace Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg
surface form: Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Hanover
describedBySource 17th-century German polymath and philosopher who co-invented calculus and made foundational contributions to logic, metaphysics, and mathematics
developedNotation differential notation dx
integral sign ∫
educatedAt University of Altdorf
University of Jena
University of Leipzig
employer House of Welf
surface form: House of Brunswick-Lüneburg
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fieldOfWork engineering
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metaphysics
philosophy
physics
theology
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givenName Gottfried
influenced Bertrand Russell
G. W. F. Hegel
surface form: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

German idealism
Gottlob Frege
Immanuel Kant
analytic philosophy
influencedBy Aristotle
René Descartes
Scholastic theology
surface form: Scholastic philosophy

St. Thomas Aquinas
surface form: Thomas Aquinas
memberOf Académie des Sciences
surface form: French Academy of Sciences

Prussian Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
nativeLanguage German
notableIdea best of all possible worlds
binary number system
calculus
identity of indiscernibles
monadology
pre-established harmony
principle of non-contradiction
principle of sufficient reason
notableWork Discourse on Metaphysics
Theodicy
surface form: Essays on Theodicy

General Investigations on the Analysis of Notions and Truths
Monadology
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
surface form: New Essays on Human Understanding

Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain
Theodicy
positionHeld court councillor in Hanover
court librarian in Hanover
religion Lutheranism

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