Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz was born on July 1, 1646 in Leipzig. His father was a Professor of Moral Philosophy and Vice Chairman of the faculty of philosophy at the University of Leipzig. His father died when he was six, so his mother raised him. When he was seven, Leibniz attended the Nicolai School in Leipzig. At the school he was taught Latin, but he also taught himself more advanced Latin and some …showed first 75 words of 839 total…

…showed last 75 words of 839 total…putting x = 1 into 1/(1+x) = 1 - x + x2 - x3 +…..Leibniz also worked with Varignon on this problem. And he discussed logarithms of negative numbers with Johann Bernoulli. Since Leibniz was the age of fifty he suffered from goat and arthritis. He died at the age of 70 on November 14, 1716 in Hanover. With only one person at his funeral, his assistant Eckhart, because Leibniz disfavored amongst the population of Hanover and they regarded him as an atheist.