Despite never having produced a magnum opus to rival René Descartes’ Discours de la méthode or Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646–1716) is considered a universal genius and one of the most original thinkers of the early modern period. His major contribution to mathematics was discovering the fundamental principles of infinitesimal calculus, independently of Newton. An individual of extraordinary breadth of knowledge, he made significant contributions to optics, mechanics (specially the theory of momentum), statistics, and probability theory and was a pioneer in the use of binary systems and modern symbolic logic. Come on in and explore the world of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz: his life, his work, and his character.