Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Tags: Philosopher.

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (German: [ˈɡɔtfʁiːt ˈvɪlhɛlm fɔn ˈlaɪbnɪts] or [ˈlaɪpnɪts]) (July 1 1646 – November 14 1716) was a German mathematician and philosopher. He occupies a prominent place in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy.Leibniz developed the infinitesimal calculus independently of Isaac Newton and Leibniz’s mathematical notation has been widely used ever since it was published.

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birth date

1646-07-01

birth place

Germany, Holy Roman Empire, Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony

death date

1716-11-14

death place

Germany, Hanover, Holy Roman Empire, Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg

era

Age of Enlightenment, 17th-century philosophy

influenced

Bertrand Russell, David Hume, Denis Diderot, Edmund Husserl, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Gregory Chaitin, Henri Bergson, Immanuel Kant, Kurt Gödel, Theodor W. Adorno, Gabriel Tarde, Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Ernst Platner, Gabriel Wagner, Martin Heidegger, Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, Giambattista Vico, Lyndon LaRouche, Charles Bonnet, Christian Wolff (philosopher), Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Nicholas Rescher, Émilie du Châtelet, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, Bernardino Varisco, George Holmes Howison

influenced by

Giordano Bruno, Aristotle, Augustine of Hippo, Baruch Spinoza, Bible, Blaise Pascal, Confucius, Plato, René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Nicholas of Cusa, Thomas Aquinas, Gabriel Wagner, Christiaan Huygens, Jacob Bernoulli, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Plotinus, Scholasticism, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Nicolas Malebranche, Nicolas Steno, Ramon Llull, Pierre Gassendi, Francisco Suárez, Erhard Weigel, Jakob Thomasius

LCCN Id

n/79/81493

main interest

Mathematics, Metaphysics, Theodicy, Universal language, Logic

notableIdea

Calculus, Entscheidungsproblem, Kinetic energy, Diagrammatic reasoning, Leibniz harmonic triangle, Fermat's little theorem, Monadology, Notation for differentiation, Best of all possible worlds, De Arte Combinatoria, Leibniz integral rule, Characteristica universalis, Leibniz formula for determinants, Calculus ratiocinator, Universal science, Transcendental law of homogeneity, Principle of sufficient reason, Leibniz formula for π, Alternating series test, Law of Continuity

region

Western philosophy