Gottfried Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (also Leibnitz or von Leibniz (July 1 (June 21 Old Style) 1646 – November 14 1716) was a German polymath of Sorbian origin who wrote primarily 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 discovered 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, linguistics, 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 His contributions to this vast array of subjects are scattered in journals and in tens of thousands of letters and unpublished manuscripts.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.
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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (Leipzig,  1646 - Hanovre, ) est un philosophe, scientifique, mathématicien, diplomate, bibliothécaire et homme de loi allemand qui a écrit en latin, français et allemand.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (* in Leipzig; † 14. November 1716 in Hannover) war ein deutscher Philosoph und Wissenschaftler, Mathematiker, Diplomat, Physiker, Historiker, Bibliothekar und Doktor des weltlichen und des Kirchenrechts. Er gilt als der universale Geist seiner Zeit und war einer der bedeutendsten Philosophen des ausgehenden 17. und beginnenden 18. Jahrhunderts. Im 18. Jh. wird er vielfach als Freiherr bezeichnet; doch bislang fehlt eine Beurkundung über die Erhebung in den Adelsstand.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, znany także pod nazwiskiem Leibnitz (ur. 1 lipca 1646 w Lipsku, zm. 14 listopada 1716 w Hanowerze) – niemiecki filozof, matematyk, prawnik, inżynier–mechanik, fizyk i dyplomata.
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A lui si deve il termine funzione (coniato nel 1694) che egli usò per individuare una quantità la cui variazione è fornita da una curva e per individuare la pendenza di tale curva e un suo punto particolare. Leibniz viene generalmente accreditato, assieme a Isaac Newton, dei maggiori contributi allo sviluppo del calcolo infinitesimale moderno, con particolare accento sul calcolo integrale.
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