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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

1646 - 1716

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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 and diplomat who is disputed with Sir Isaac Newton to have invented calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics, such as binary arithmetic, and statistics. Leibniz has been called the "last universal genius" due to his knowledge and skills in different fields and because such people became much less common after his lifetime with the coming of the Industrial Revolution and the spread of specialized labor. He is a prominent figure in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz has received more than 5,716,626 page views. His biography is available in 150 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 147 in 2019). Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is the 6th most popular mathematician (down from 4th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Germany (down from 15th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Mathematician.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is most famous for his work on calculus and the binary system.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ranks 6 out of 1,004. Before him are Archimedes, Blaise Pascal, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, and Euclid. After him are Leonhard Euler, Omar Khayyam, Al-Biruni, Hypatia, Bernhard Riemann, and Bertrand Russell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1646, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ranks 1. After him are Christian V of Denmark, Ismail Ibn Sharif, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Antoine Galland, John Flamsteed, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Godfrey Kneller, Maria Francisca of Savoy, Hortense Mancini, and Alexandre Exquemelin. Among people deceased in 1716, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ranks 1. After him are Louis de Montfort, Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, Engelbert Kaempfer, Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, Giovanni Battista Bassani, Tokugawa Ietsugu, Ogata Kōrin, Roger Cotes, Anthim the Iberian, Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha, and Charles de La Fosse.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ranks 17 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), Otto von Bismarck (1815), Johannes Kepler (1571), Albrecht Dürer (1471), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), and Richard Wagner (1813). After him are Peter Paul Rubens (1577), Max Weber (1864), George Frideric Handel (1685), Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837), and Frederick the Great (1712).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ranks 2. Before him are Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777). After him are Bernhard Riemann (1826), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Emmy Noether (1882), Gottlob Frege (1848), Karl Weierstrass (1815), August Ferdinand Möbius (1790), Friedrich Bessel (1784), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Richard Dedekind (1831), and Alexander Grothendieck (1928).

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