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Gottfried Leibniz

died 308 years ago

14 November 1716

Gottfried Leibniz was a German mathematician who developed the present day notation for the differential and integral calculus though he never thought of the derivative as a limit. His philosophy is also important and he invented an early calculating machine.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Leibniz/