Tent Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The Polymath Who Brought Us Calculus
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4398-9224-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Polymath Who Brought Us Calculus focuses on the life and accomplishments of one of the seventeenth century’s most influential mathematicians and philosophers. The book, which draws on Leibniz’s written works and translations, and reconstructs dialogues Leibniz may have had based on the historical record of his life experiences, portrays Leibniz as both a phenomenal genius and a real person.

Suitable for middle school age readers, the book traces Leibniz’s life from his early years as a young boy and student to his later work as a court historian. It discusses the intellectual and social climate in which he fought for his ideas, including his rather contentious relationship with Newton (both claimed to have invented calculus). The text describes how Leibniz developed the first mechanical calculator that could handle addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It also examines his passionate advocacy of rational arguments in all controversial matters, including the law, expressed in his famous exclamation calculemus: let us calculate to see who is right.

Leibniz made groundbreaking contributions to mathematics and philosophy that have shaped our modern views of these fields.

Zielgruppe

Elementary and middle school students and teachers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tent, M. B. W.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Operations Research Graphentheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis Elementare Analysis und Allgemeine Begriffe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Brilliant Child
A Student at the Universities of Leipzig and Jena
Dr. Leibniz Begins His Career
Paris, London, and Mathematics
Librarian and Councilor to Duke Johann Friedrich of Hannover
Councilor and Librarian to Duke Ernst August
Writing and Not Writing the History
Court Historian to Elector Georg Ludwig
Alone in Hannover

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