Harold Hyte & Spencer Allen GOTTFRIED WILHELM Computer Science 1010 Dr. Yvon, Section 2 VON LEIBNIZ 9/25/2015 PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1646 in Leipzig, Germany Attended law school at the University of Leipzig at 15 Left Leipzig for Nurnburg because he couldn’t get a degree Dissertation earned him a doctor’s degree of law immediately on his arrival Constructed a calculating machine and presented it to the Royal Society of England For financial support Contributed to the basics of integral and differentiable calculus Pursued many other areas such as Philosophy and Religion as well Leibniz’s Notation involved limits CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMPUTER SCIENCE
Formulated theory that all information could be reduced to an ordered combination of elements such as numbers Used a binary number system, algorithmic information, and feedback Relationship between computation and information Using outputs of a function as inputs Calculating machine presented to the Royal Society Predecessor to Alan Turing’s mathematical machine Execute all 4 mathematical operations, but could not carry numbers Notes to create machine to perform algebraic operations Designed other machines to integrate equations and create ciphers Imagined a machine with binary numbers and marbles that used punch cards Modern computers replace the components but run essentially as he originally envisioned IMPACTS IN THE FIELD
One of the first computer scientists Without him, Computer Science may not exist today Created the basic calculator Could perform equations, but could not retain information One of the first to realize the importance of the binary number system Made mathematical operations significantly easier SOURCES
http://www.britannica.com/biography/ Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz http://edge.org/discourse/ schirrmacher_eurotech.html http://history-computer.com/Dreamers/ Leibniz.html