Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
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17th century
- 1646July 1 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician (d. 1716)source
- 1675October 29 – Gottfried Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.source
- 1675November 11 – Gottfried Leibniz makes the earliest known use of infinitesimal calculus in the breaking down of a function.source
- 1677Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz gives a complete solution to the tangent problem.source
- 1700July 11 – The Prussian Academy of Sciences is founded, with Gottfried Leibniz as president.source
18th century
- 1716November 14 – Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher, scientist, and mathematician (b. 1646)source
- 1765April 26 – At Saint Petersburg, German engineer Christian Kratzenstein presents to the Russian Academy of Sciences a perfected version of the arithmetical machine originally invented by Gottfried Leibniz. Kratzenstein claims that his machine solves the problem with the Leibniz machine has with calculations above four digits, perfecting the flaw where the machine is "prone to err whenever it is necessary to make a number of 9999 move to 10000", but the machine is not developed further.source
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