Gottfried Leibniz

Gottfried Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz was born in 1646 to Catharina Schmuck, an extremely religious being, and Friedrich Leibniz, a moral philosophy professor at Leipzig. Gottfried grew up with a religious and moral value set environment. Those values were an important contribution to Gottfried’s philosophy and life in the future. Leibniz was a German philosopher and mathematician. With Leibniz’s ideas and theories, he became a prominent figure in mathematics and was a major mathematician that greatly contributed to calculus. Leibniz’s contribution to the invention of infinitesimal calculus was monumental and is widely recognized as modern mathematics starting point. Leibniz’s Nova Methodus pro Maximis et Minimis, itemque Tangentibus… in Acta Eruditorum, in 1684, published Leibniz’s details of his ideas of differential calculus. The paper contained the d notation, the derivatives of powers rule, the quotient rule, and product rule. But the journal did not contain any proof of the ideas. In Acta Eruditorum, a paper was published by Leibniz which dealt with calculus integrals and had the first appearance of the integral notation. The next year Newton’s Principia appeared and contained Newton’s ‘method of fluxions’ but Newton failed to get it published in 1671 which resulted in a major dispute between Newton and Leibniz. Newton claimed Leibniz’s ideas were plagiarized from his work and ideas but there was no proof of the claim. Newton’s approach to it was geometrical, while Leibniz’s approach was algebraical. Leibniz’s language was appropriate for the ideas presented. Leibniz’s crystallization of infinitesimal calculus is considered as his designing of a new problem solving process. His discovery of that calculus extended the mathematical treatment to more various types of variable quantities and curves. It was once limited to simple curves, straight lines, and constants but his discovery expanded it to more various types.
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