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In the century of Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Pascal, and Newton, the most versatile genius of all was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He was born at Leipzig, entered the university there at the age of fifteen, and received his bachelor’s degree at seventeen. He continued his studies in logic, philosophy and law, and at twenty completed a brilliant thesis on the historical approach to teaching law. When the University of Leipzig denied his application for a doctorate in law because of his youth, he transferred to the University of Altdorf in Nuremberg, and received his doctorate in philosophy there in 1667.
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Edwards, C.H. (1979). The Calculus According to Leibniz. In: The Historical Development of the Calculus. Springer Study Edition. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6230-5_9
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