Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Polymath
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who invented calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics and statistics. Wikipedia
Born: July 1, 1646, Leipzig, Germany
Died: November 14, 1716 (age 70 years), Hanover, Germany
Influenced: Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Charles Babbage, and more
Influenced by: René Descartes, Thomas Aquinas, Nicolas Malebranche, and more
Education: University of Altdorf (1666–1667), Leipzig University (1661–1666), and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, (1663–1663)
Academic advisors: Christiaan Huygens, Erhard Weigel, Jakob Thomasius, and more
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