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'''Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz''' (1646-1716) was a German mathematician, philosopher and political advisor.  His greatest achievement was his independent discovery of differential and integral calculus, also invented by [[Isaac Newton]].  Leibniz was the first to use the notation of the integral.   

'''Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz''' (1646-1716) was a Sorbian mathematician, philosopher and political advisor.  His greatest achievement was his independent discovery of differential and integral calculus, also invented by [[Isaac Newton]].  Leibniz was the first to use the notation of the integral.   

In philosophy, Leibniz disagreed with Descartes' "I think there for I am" and instead Leibniz thought that neither form alone (the mind) or matter alone (the body) could explain the existence of an individual.  Instead, Leibniz created a philosophy known as "monadology", which holds that souls are all there are in the universe.  Even a table, according to Leibniz, is nothing other than a collection of "windowless monads" which cannot interact.  This doctrine of non-interacting souls is abhorrent to traditional Christianity.

In philosophy, Leibniz disagreed with Descartes' "I think there for I am" and instead Leibniz thought that neither form alone (the mind) or matter alone (the body) could explain the existence of an individual.  Instead, Leibniz created a philosophy known as "monadology", which holds that souls are all there are in the universe.  Even a table, according to Leibniz, is nothing other than a collection of "windowless monads" which cannot interact.  This doctrine of non-interacting souls is abhorrent to traditional Christianity.