The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive's biography of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, covering his life, his development of differential and integral calculus notation in Paris, and the priority dispute with Isaac Newton.
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PublisherMacTutor History of Mathematics, University of St Andrews
URLhttps://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Leibniz/
Source Typeacademic biography
Reliability Tier2
A specialist academic history-of-mathematics reference maintained by the University of St Andrews, with named editorial contributors and continuous review, tier 2 throughout this atlas for mathematician biographies. Sources
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (MacTutor)
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