Full Name: Gottfried Wilhelp Leibniz
Born: 1646
Died: 1716
Hometown: Leipzig, Germany
Fave Subjects: Minds and Bodies, Math, Science, Law, Politics, Languages
Career Highlights:
- wrote books in three different languages (German, Latin, French)
- studied Chinese
- invented a new kind of math that’s still used with computers
Big Question:
What’s the stuff that everything in the universe is made of?
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