English noun: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz | |||
1. | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (person) German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716) | ||
Synonyms | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Leibnitz, Leibniz | ||
Instance hypernym | mathematician, philosopher | ||