Perhaps 50,000 perished. The great philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz—born in Leipzig in 1646—died nearly 40 years before the Lisbon earthquake, but the event would shape his legacy.

If you’ve taken calculus you’ve probably heard of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (who would have been 372 years old on July 1st, by the way). He’s the guy that gave us the notation we use in ...

Gottfried Leibniz was not the first philosopher to think that we live in the best of all possible worlds. He may have been the unluckiest, suffering the posthumous fate of being skewered in the ...

Four leading biologists are among ten scientists to have been awarded the esteemed Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for their research, the German Research Foundation (DFG) announced Dec. 11.

Extreme heat will kill millions of people in Europe without rapid action on climate change. Plus, the tireless polymath who ‘couldn’t stop dreaming up ways to make the world better’.

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the most prestigious research funding award in Germany. The recipients receive prize money totalling 2.5 million euros which can be freely used at their ...

If you’ve taken calculus you’ve probably heard of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (who would have been 372 years old on July 1st, by the way). He’s the guy that gave us the notation we use in ...

It was invented by German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Binary code is used widely in computer programming, so it is important to learn what it means and how to use it. The decimal ...

It was invented by German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Binary code is used widely in computer programming, so it is important to learn what it means and how to use it. The decimal ...