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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Wikipedia
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (or Leibnitz; [a] 1 July 1646 [O.S. 21 June] – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who is credited, alongside Sir Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics, such as binary arithmetic and statistics.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Biography & Facts | Britannica
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher, mathematician, and political adviser, important both as a metaphysician and as a logician and distinguished also for his invention of the differential and integral calculus independent of Sir Isaac Newton.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was one of the great thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is known as the last “universal genius”. He made deep and important contributions to the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of religion, as well as mathematics, physics, geology, jurisprudence, and history.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A polymath and one of the founders of calculus, Leibniz is best known philosophically for his metaphysical idealism; his theory that reality is composed of spiritual, non-interacting “monads,” and his oft-ridiculed thesis that we live in the best of all possible worlds.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - World History Encyclopedia
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is known for being a German polymath who invented a sophisticated calculating machine and the calculus. He also proposed a philosophy that blended rationalism with empiricism and metaphysics.

Gottfried Leibniz (1646 - 1716) - Biography - MacTutor History of ...
Gottfried Leibniz was a German mathematician who developed the present day notation for the differential and integral calculus though he never thought of the derivative as a limit. His philosophy is also important and he invented an early calculating machine.

Biography of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Philosopher and ... - ThoughtCo
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a prominent German philosopher and mathematician who is known for developing the modern binary system, co-discovering calculus, and his philosophy of optimism, which stated that everything happens for a reason.

Gottfried Leibniz - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (also Leibnitz or von Leibniz) [1] 1 July 1 (21 June OS) 1646 – 14 November 1716) was a German intellectual who wrote mostly in French and Latin. He played an important role in both philosophy and mathematics.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von Leibniz summary
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von Leibniz, (born July 1, 1646, Leipzig, Saxony—died Nov. 14, 1716, Hannover, Hanover), German philosopher, mathematician, inventor, jurist, historian, diplomat, and political adviser.

Outline of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Wikipedia
Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz (1 July 1646 [O.S. 21 June] – 14 November 1716); German polymath, philosopher logician, mathematician. [1] Developed differential and integral calculus at about the same time and independently of Isaac Newton.