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    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (or Leibnitz; 1 July 1646 [O.S. 21 June] – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist...
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    dispute') was an argument between the mathematicians Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over who had first invented calculus. The question was a major...
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    Philosophy. He was the father of Gottfried Leibniz. Leibniz was born in Altenberg, Saxony, the son of Ambrosious Leibniz, a civil servant, and a Leipzig...
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    Hannover to Leibniz Universität Hannover. Following agreement by the Leibniz Academy on the use of the name, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität...
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  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was a German philosopher and mathematician. In engineering, the following concepts are attributed to Leibniz: Leibniz...
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    Monadology (category Works by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)
    The Monadology (French: La Monadologie, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz's best known works of his later philosophy. It is a short text which presents...
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    The Leibniz Association (German: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft or Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz) is a union of German non-university research...
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  • philosophers who held this view most clearly were Baruch Spinoza and Gottfried Leibniz, whose attempts to grapple with the epistemological and metaphysical...
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  • In algebra, the Leibniz formula, named in honor of Gottfried Leibniz, expresses the determinant of a square matrix in terms of permutations of the matrix...
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    momentum for quantity of motion, and vis for force. In 1686, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, in Discourse on Metaphysics, gave an argument against Descartes'...
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  • Leibniz's rule (named after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz) may refer to one of the following: Product rule in differential calculus General Leibniz rule,...
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    The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (German: Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft)...
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  • distinct" idea of a supremely perfect being. In the early 18th century, Gottfried Leibniz augmented Descartes' ideas in an attempt to prove that a "supremely...
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    any matter in the. In contrast, other natural philosophers, notably Gottfried Leibniz, thought that space was in fact a collection of relations between...
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  • algebra did not decisively move to the dynamic function stage until Gottfried Leibniz. Abstract stage, where mathematical structure plays a central role...
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    Invented by Leibniz in 1673, it was used for three centuries until the advent of the electronic calculator in the mid-1970s. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz built...
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  • though they receive an identical indoctrination of Christianity. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, was a Lutheran philosopher, who unlike Locke, believed that there...
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    Mathesis universalis (category Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)
    envisaged by Descartes and Leibniz, among a number of other 16th- and 17th-century philosophers and mathematicians. For Leibniz, it would be supported by...
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    biscuit, the Petit-Beurre. The brand name Leibniz comes from the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716). The only connection between...
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  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was a German philosopher and mathematician. Leibniz may also refer to: Friedrich Leibniz (1597–1652), father of Gottfried...
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  • the limit. The test was used by Gottfried Leibniz and is sometimes known as Leibniz's test, Leibniz's rule, or the Leibniz criterion. The test is only sufficient...
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    stepped reckoner or Leibniz calculator was a mechanical calculator invented by the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (started in 1673, when...
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  • century by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz independently of each other. An argument over priority led to the Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy...
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  • In calculus, the general Leibniz rule, named after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, generalizes the product rule for the derivative of the product of two (which...
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    Théodicée (category Books by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)
    Théodicée [te.ɔ.di.se], is a book of philosophy by the German polymath Gottfried Leibniz. The book, published in 1710, introduced the term theodicy, and its...
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    Herrenhausen Palace and its gardens and sponsored philosophers, such as Gottfried Leibniz and John Toland. The twelfth child and fifth daughter of Frederick...
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    Best of all possible worlds (category Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)
    Welten) was coined by the German polymath and Enlightenment philosopher Gottfried Leibniz in his 1710 work Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté...
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    this word or the phrase "mental substance" has a special meaning. Gottfried Leibniz, belonging to the generation immediately after Descartes, held the...
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  • Principle of sufficient reason (category Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)
    a cause. The principle was articulated and made prominent by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, with many antecedents, and was further used and developed by...
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  • Law of continuity (category Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)
    The law of continuity is a heuristic principle introduced by Gottfried Leibniz based on earlier work by Nicholas of Cusa and Johannes Kepler. It is the...
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