Gottfried Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz holds an outstanding place in the history of mathematics and philosophy. He was a German philosopher and mathematician, but had written in multiple languages, primarily in Latin, French and German. He had urbanized infinitesimal calculus and Leibniz’s mathematical notation that has widely been used ever since it was presented. His works projected modern logic and analytic philosophy, but his philosophy also looked back to the scholastic tradition, in which assumptions were produced by pertaining grounds to first ideology. Leibniz’s philosophy was mostly noted for his optimism, e.g. his conclusion that our Universe is, in a restricted sense, the best possible one that God could have created. Thus, his philosophical writings mainly consisted of a massive amount of short pieces: periodical paragraphs, documents and many letters to many journalists. He had invented the Leibniz wheel, used the arithmometer and the first mass-produced mechanical calculator.