Outline Of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz:

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. Leibniz earned his keep as a lawyer, diplomat, librarian, and genealogist for the House of Hanover, and contributed to diverse areas. His impact continues to reverberate, especially his original contributions in logic and binary representations.[2]

Achievements and contributions

Devices

Logic

  • Alphabet of human thought
  • Calculus ratiocinator

Mathematics

  • Calculus
  • General Leibniz rule
  • Leibniz formula for π
  • Leibniz integral rule

Philosophy

  • Best of all possible worlds
  • Characteristica universalis
  • Identity of indiscernibles
  • Pre-established harmony
  • Principle of sufficient reason

Physics

Personal life

  • Leibniz's political views
  • Leibniz's religious views

Family

Major works by Leibniz

  • De Arte Combinatoria
  • Discourse on Metaphysics, (text at wikisource)
  • Monadology, (text at wikisource)
  • New Essays on Human Understanding
  • Nova Methodus pro Maximis et Minimis
  • Protogaea
  • Théodicée

Manuscript archives and translations of Leibniz's works

  • Leibniz Archive (Hannover) at the Leibniz Research Center - Hannover
  • Leibniz Archive (Potsdam) at the Brandenburg Academy of Humanities and Sciences
  • Leibniz Archive (Munster), Leibniz-Forschungsstelle Münster digital edition
  • Leibniz Archive (Berlin), digital edition
  • Donald Rutherford's translations at UCSD
  • Lloyd Strickland's translations at leibniz-translations.com

Journals focused on Leibniz studies

  • The Leibniz Review
  • Studia Leibnitiana

Organizations named after Leibniz

  • Leibniz Association
  • Leibniz College, affiliated with the University of Tübingen
  • Leibniz Institute of European History
  • Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research
  • Leibniz Society of North America
  • Leibniz Supercomputing Center, (more details in German version)
  • Leibniz University Hannover
  • ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
  • Leibniz Schools in Germany

Prizes named after Leibniz

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. It is regarded as the highest German award.[3]
  • Leibniz Ring awarded by the Hannover Press Club.
  • Berlin Leibniz Medal originally awarded by the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences; currently awarded by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
  • Leibniz Medal (Mainz) awarded by the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature.

Publications about Leibniz

Maria Rosa Antognazza's 2009 Leibniz biography is a major recent resource.[4]

See also

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz bibliography
  • German Wikipedia Leibniz page; it contains additional information.

References

  1. Rescher, N. (2003). On Leibniz, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh University Press.
  2. Davis, M. (2011). The universal computer: The road from Leibniz to Turing, (AK Peters/CRC Press).
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  4. Antognazza, M. R. (2009). Leibniz: an intellectual biography, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press , winner of the 2010 Pfizer Award)

External links

  • Webpage at the Leibniz Association
  • Webpage at the Mainz Research Alliance
  • Leibniz Association
  • Leibniz on Wikisource




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