Outline of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Short description: Overview of and topical guide to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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]

## Contents

* 1 Achievements and contributions
* 1.1 Devices
* 1.2 Logic
* 1.3 Mathematics
* 1.4 Philosophy
* 1.5 Physics
* 2 Personal life
* 2.1 Family
* 3 Major works by Leibniz
* 4 Manuscript archives and translations of Leibniz's works
* 5 Journals focused on Leibniz studies
* 6 Organizations named after Leibniz
* 7 Prizes named after Leibniz
* 8 Publications about Leibniz
* 9 See also
* 10 References
* 11 External links

## 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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Mathematics and
philosophy

* Alternating series test
* Best of all possible worlds
* Calculus controversy
* Calculus ratiocinator
* Characteristica universalis
* Difference
* Identity of indiscernibles
* Law of Continuity
* Leibniz wheel
* Leibniz's gap
* Pre-established harmony
* Principle of sufficient reason
* Salva veritate
* Theodicy
* Transcendental law of homogeneity
* Vis viva
* Well-founded phenomenon
* Rationalism

Works|

* De Arte Combinatoria (1666)
* Discourse on Metaphysics (1686)
* New Essays on Human Understanding (1704)
* Théodicée (1710)
* Monadology (1714)
* Leibniz–Clarke correspondence (1715-1716)

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