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n. - German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716).

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  • Gottfried Leibniz spent several years as a diplomat in France, England, and Holland, where he became acquainted with the leading intellectuals of the age.
  • Leibniz, is essentially a medium — a mirror in constant flux.
  • 1671: James Gregory discovers what we call the Leibniz Series an infinite series that sums to pi/4
  • 5 The phrase "labyrinth of the continuum" appears in Leibniz,
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