Go to updated and illustrated post. __1675: __Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫ in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation that's still in use today. Leibniz was a ...

Among his many achievements, Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) invented differential calculus independently of Isaac Newton; much of the notation and vocabulary used today comes from Leibniz, who ...

Sunday's Google Doodle celebrates the 372nd birthday of mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He was born near the end of the Thirty Years War, into a world very different from ...

On November 14, 1716, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz died. The universal genius of the early enlightenment not only passed on a wealth of knowledge, but left imprint on our scientific way of thinking. When ...

“The present is big with the future,” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz once said, and he would know. The 17th-century philosopher and mathematician developed the binary number system that is still being used ...

The first English translation of Gottfried Leibniz's earth science treatise records the difficulties of understanding our planet before geologists appreciated deep time, Richard Fortey discovers.

And the Google Doodle goes to… Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz! I admit it: I had never heard of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz until this morning when Google decided to provide the late (obviously) 17th century ...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is credited with creating the first modern formula for calculating pi GOTTFRIEDWilhelm Leibniz was aGerman philosopher, inventor and mathematician laid the foundations for ...

__1675: __Gottfried Leibniz writes the integral sign ∫in an unpublished manuscript, introducing the calculus notation that's still in use today. Leibniz was a German mathematician and philosopher who ...