Perhaps 50,000 perished. The great philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz—born in Leipzig in 1646—died nearly 40 years before the Lisbon earthquake, but the event would shape his legacy.

To draw our conclusions, we will explore the conflict of opinion between two great philosophers: Leibniz and Voltaire. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born on July 1, 1646 in Leipzig. He showed ...

Four leading biologists are among ten scientists to have been awarded the esteemed Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for their research, the German Research Foundation (DFG) announced Dec. 11.

17th Century: Calculus In the late 1600s, Isaac Newton (England) and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Germany) independently developed calculus. Despite accusations of plagiarism, historical evidence ...

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the most prestigious research funding award in Germany. The recipients receive prize money totalling 2.5 million euros which can be freely used at their ...

It was invented by German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Binary code is used widely in computer programming, so it is important to learn what it means and how to use it. The decimal ...

Prof. Dr. Eva Viehmann, investigator at Mathematics Münster, has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2024, the most highly endowed German research funding prize. The German Research ...

Göttingen (1993). Numerous awards and prizes, among them the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1986), the Feldberg Prize (1990), the Otto Bayer Prize (1992), the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine (1999) ...