Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
...ough this sounds like an young age to enter college, in his time it was quite extraordinary but there would still be a few there his age. In Leipzig, he received his bachelors and masters degrees of law for theses on jurisprudence. he transferred to the University of Altdorf, where he received his doctorate in law in 1666. In 1673 he was still trying to develop a good notation for his calculus and his first calculations were unsuccessful. He would work in both differential and integral calculus. On 21 November 1675 he wrote a manuscript using the f(x) dx notation for the first time. In the same manuscript the product rule for differentiation is given. By autumn 1676 Leibniz discovered the familiar d(xn) = nxn-1dx for both integral and fractional n. Another of Leibniz’s achievements was his development of the binary system of arithmetic. He perfected his system by 1679....