Mmmm where to start, best at the beginning hello my name is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz I was born June 21st 1646 but was later changed to July 1st because of the new calendar system. I was born Leipzig, Germany to Friedrich Leibniz and Catherina Schmuck my father was a Professor of Moral Philosophy. He died when I was 6 years so my education was through his papers and books he left me. At the age of 14 I studied at the university Leipzig were my father had been a professor I graduated with a law degree at the age of 20.

                At this point in my life my upmost goal was a job so I started work as a salaried alchemist even though had no idea what I was doing. Then through Johann Christian von Boineburg I was appointed Assessor in the Court of Appeal by Elector of Mainz in 1669. After the death of von Boineburg I made it my goal to protect German speaking land from the French king, Louie XIV I had formulated a plan to distract the French which involved sending them the after Egypt and then the Dutch east indies. In the process of selling the plan to the French I met many intellects that shaped my later being, Nicolas Malebranche, Antoine Arnauld top French philosophers, mathematician Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus a fellow German and Dutch physicist and mathematician Christiaan Huygens. Through Huygens I realized that my math was poor and with his help I greatly improved my mathematical skill. I was later sent to England were I met Henry Oldenburg and John Collins as well as being made a member of the royal society for the calculus machine I made. I retuned Mainz because of the death of the elector in 1672 the same year von Boineburg died.

                I spent 4 years be for arriving at my next position as Counselor to the Duke of Brunswick in Hanover and I have been working for the family ever since. I find myself studying and righting all the time there is very little to do for the duke so he gives my free rein on my interest. I study philosophy, mathematics, physics, European history, linguistics, and geology just to name a few. In mathematics I worked out the integral and the differential others had used similar meatheads for solving geometry problems my system was more grounded and could solve more problems by using the infinitesimals. Another accomplishment I had in mathematics was with probabilities and the creation of the binary system    

  

 

 

Works cited:

 

Garber, Daniel, and Roger Ariew. “Introduction: Leibniz and the Sciences.” Perspectives on Science (Spring-Summer 1998):1(1).General Onefile. Gale. Nassau Community College Library   http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=IoF

Josseph, Douglas M. “Leibniz on the foundation of Calculus: the Question of the Reality of Infinitesimal Magnitudes.” Perspective on Science (Spring-Summer 1998): 6(1). General Onefile. Gale Nassau Community College Library                                                http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=ITOF                

http://www.wikipedia.org/ “Gottfried Leibniz.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz