GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Who is considered one of the three great 17th Century rationalists along with René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza?

• Gottfried Leibniz

• Isaac Newton

• George Boole

• Carl Friedrich Gauss

What did Leibniz develop independently of Sir Isaac Newton?

• Both differential and integral calculus

• Integral calculus

• None of the above

• Differential calculus

When did Leibniz first publish his work on calculus?

• None of the above

• 1693

• 1684

• 1670s

What did the Royal Society credit to Newton and Leibniz respectively in the development of calculus?

• Both discovery and publication to Newton

• First publication to Newton, first discovery to Leibniz

• Both discovery and publication to Leibniz

• First discovery to Newton, first publication to Leibniz

What did Leibniz pave the way for with his work on matrices and linear algebra?

• Computer systems

• Binary number system

• Topology

• Calculus

What did Leibniz develop that would later become the foundation of virtually all modern computer systems?

• Calculus

• Linear algebra

• Topology

• Binary number system

What is Leibniz often considered as between Aristotle in Ancient Greece and George Boole and Augustus De Morgan in the 19th Century?

• Mathematician

• Great philosopher

• Physicist

• Important logician