HackingTheUniverse

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1646 and became known primarily for his contributions to philosophy and mathematics but was also accomplished in many other fields. He created the modern binary number system that is used by computers and at the same time as Newton, invented calculus.

PRECURSOR:
-0385 – Aristotle
1571 – Kepler
1596 – Descartes
1608 – Torricelli

CONCURRENT:
1623 – Pascal
1629 – Huygens
1642 – Newton
Spinoza

SUBSEQUENT:
1789 – Cauchy
1791 – Babbage
1815 – Lovelace
1826 – Riemann
1894 – Weiner
1924 – Mandelbrot