Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Portrait bi Christoph Bernhard Francke
Born	1 Julie 1646 Leipzig, Electorate o Saxony, Haly Roman Empire
Dee'd	14 November 1716(1716-11-14) (aged 70) Hanover, Electorate o Hanover, Haly Roman Empire
Naitionality	German
Eddication	Alte Nikolaischule (1655–1661) Leipzig Varsity (1661–1666: B.A. in phil., Dec. 1662 M.A. in phil., Feb. 1664 LL.B., Sep. 1665 Dr. phil. hab., Mar. 1666) Varsity o Jena (simmer schuil, 1663) Varsity o Altdorf (Dr. jur., November 1666)
Era	17t-/18t-century philosophy
Region	Wastren philosophy
Schuil	Rationalism
Main interests	Mathematics, physics, geology, medicine, biology, embryology, epidemiology, veterinary medicine, paleontology, psychology, ingineerin, lingueestics, philology, sociology, metapheesics, ethics, economics, diplomacy, history, politics, muisic theory, poetry, logic, theodicy, universal leid
Notable ideas	Calculus Monads Best o aw possible warlds Pre-established harmony Identity o indiscernibles Matrix (mathematics) Leibniz integral rule Principle o sufficient raison Notation for differentiation Product rule Vis viva Boolean algebra Salva veritate Stepped reckoner Symbolic logic Semiotics Analysis situs Law o Continuity Transcendental law o homogeneity Ars combinatoria Calculus ratiocinator Leibniz's notation Characteristica universalis Problem o why thare is onything at aw Pluralistic idealism
Influences Scholasticism, Suárez, Descartes, Hobbes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Bossuet, Pascal, Confucius
Influenced Berkeley, Platner, Voltaire, Hume, Kant, Russell, Wiener, Gödel, Riemann, Gauss, Lagrange, Euler, Heidegger, Peirce, Benoit Mandelbrot, Wundt, Frege, Rescher
Signatur

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, cried Leibnitz or von Leibniz as weel (1 Julie (21 Juin Auld Style) 1646 – 14 November 1716) wis a German scientist that scrieved maistly in French an Latin.

He wis educate in law an philosophy. He wrocht as factotum tae twa muckle German noble hooses (ane becomin the British ryal faimlie at the time he wis wirkin for it). Leibniz haed a muckle role in the European politics an diplomacy o his day. He haes juist as big a place baith in the history o philosophy an in the history o mathematics. He inventit calculus at the same time as Newton, an his notation is the ane in general uiss syne. He inventit the binary seestem forby, the foonds o juist aboot aw modren computers.Template:Whit?

In philosophy, he is best mynt for optimism. His thocht wis that the universe is, in ae sense, the best possible that God coud hae made. He wis ane o the great 17th century rationalists. Mony fowk sees René Descartes an Baruch Spinoza as the ither twa. His philosophy leuks back on the Scholastic tradeetion an leuks forrit on modren logic an analysis.

Leibniz made unco contreibutions tae pheesics an technology forby, an anteecipatit concepts that surfaced lang efter in biology, medicine, geology, probability theory, psychology, an information science. He wrate on politics, law, ethics, theology, history, an philology, an aw. Whiles he e'en wrate in verse. His contreebutions tae this muckle array o subjects is scattered in jurnals, in tens o thoosands o letters, an in unpublished manuscripts. As o 2006, thare isna ony complete edeetion o Leibniz's writins, sae a full accoont o his accomplishments isna yet possible.

References

Soorces

• Richard T. W. Arthur, 2014. Leibniz. John Wiley & Sons.