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. 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.

Achievements and contributions

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

Personal life

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

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.
• 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.

See also

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

External links

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