The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is considered the most ... Leitgelb combines mathematics and philosophy; the question is whether it is possible to conduct a philosophical argument as if ...

The great philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz—born in Leipzig ... our “modern digital culture” was prefigured. But mathematics, for Leibniz, didn’t reduce the world to matter in motion ...

Apollonius of Perga, who lived from 240 BC to c. 190 BC, was a brilliant ancient Greek mathematician known for his work on ...

Gottfried Leibniz made conceptual advances that lie behind our digital world. Yet for centuries he was mocked for a misstep.

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The chemist Bettina Valeska Lotsch focuses her research on innovative materials for sustainable energy solutions. Specialising in fundamental material synthesis, she has achieved ground-breaking ...

The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...