German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)
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Both Leibniz and Newton had independently developed a branch of mathematics called calculus, which underlies most of modern physics. 萊布尼茲和牛頓兩人都獨自創建了微積分這一數學分支，從而為大部分現代物理學奠定了基礎。