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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instanceOf diplomat
historian
human
jurist
librarian
logician
mathematician
philosopher
polymath
theologian
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
familyName Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz self-linksurface differs
surface form: Leibniz
fieldOfWork engineering
history
law
linguistics
logic
mathematics
metaphysics
philosophy
physics
theology
fullName Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz self-link
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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Early modern philosophy hasMajorFigure Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The Search After Truth influenced Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
La Monadologie author Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
mind–body problem historicalFigureAssociated Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Leibnizian rationalism basedOnWorkOf Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Leibniz's metaphysics of modality developedBy Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gian-Carlo influencedBy Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
subject surface form: Gian-Carlo Rota