Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

Gottfried Leibniz is one of the most brilliant minds that the human story could ever knew. This peculiar men was born in Leipzig, on July the first of 1646, and closed his eyes to the eternity in Hannover, on Novembeer the fourteenth of 1716. He was a philosopher, mathematician, logician, theologian, jurist, librarian and German politician, in fact, he is recognized as "The Last Universal Genius", wich it means, the last person who could be sufficiently trained in all fields of knowledge, afterwards there were only specialists.

He made very deep and important contributions in various areas, some of them are metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of religion, as well as in mathematics, physics, geology, jurisprudence and history, between others...

As you can see, his work is very complete and that`s why i like him a lot, i honestly conceive him as an example, an holistic man who got lots of things to give for this world. OH GOD I LOVE IT!, and i`m always trying to perform myself into a more integral and interdisciplinary subject, because i like different kinds of knowledge. The reason why i chose him fot this post, is because this great thinker of the seventeenth and eighteenth century is credited with Newton with the invention/discovery of the infinitesimal calculus, and even though he developed it ten years later than the physics father, many of his notations and nomenclatures are what we use today.

And as if that were not enough, Leibniz also made contributions to technology and anticipated notions that appeared much later in biology, medicine, geology, probability theory (his youngest works talk about the combinatorial art) psychology, engineering and computer science.