Leibniz taught himself Latin and some Greek by age twelve, so that he could read the books in his father’s library (Leibniz, Gottfried…). The books he most often read were those dealing with metaphysics and theology by Catholic and Protestant writers. Later in school he was taught Aristotle’s logic and theory of categorizing knowledge. He wasn’t satisfied with Aristotle’s system and began to think of ways of how he could improve upon it (Gottfried Wilhelm von). In 1661 Leibniz began studying philosophy, mathematics and law at the University of Leipzig (A Short…). Other topics included in his two-year general degree were rhetoric, Latin, Greek and Hebrew. He received his bachelor’s degree in 1663 with a thesis On the Principle of the Individual. Leibniz went to school at Jena for the summer of 1663. The ma

The ideas of the infinitesimal calculus can be expressed either in the notation of fluxions or in that of differentials. The former was used by Newton in 1666, but no distinct account of it was printed till 1693. The earliest use of the latter in the notebooks of Leibniz may probably be referred to 1675, it was employed in the letter sent to Newton in 1677, and an account of it was printed in the memoir of 1684 described below. There is no question that the differential notation is due to Leibniz, and the sole question is as to whether the general idea of the calculus was taken from Newton or discovered independently. [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)].

In Mainz, he met Elector Johann Philip von Schonborn, who appointed him to his court as a judge in the High Court of Appeal and as an assistant to the Court Assessor Hermann Andreas Lasser. Before Mainz, Leibniz served as a secretary, assistant, librarian and adviser for Johann Christian von Boineburg, who was a minister to Schonborn. In 1672, Leibniz was sent to promote the plan of the French court

Newton had written a letter to Leibniz, which went through Oldenburg first and then took some time to reach Leibniz. In this letter were the results of many of Newton’s findings, but it did not include the methods he used to reach his conclusions. Leibniz replied right away, but Newton did not know that his letter had taken so long to reach Leibniz and, as a result, Newton thought Leibniz had six weeks to respond. This letter made Leibniz realize that he should hurry to gather all of his work of his methods to publish. Newton wrote a second letter on the October the 24th of 1676, which did not reach Leibniz until June of 1677, at which time Leibniz was in Hanover. In this second letter Newton had written to Leibniz claiming that Leibniz had stolen his methods. Leibniz replied with some details of the principles of his differential calculus, including the rule for differentiating a function of a function.

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