Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (also known as von Leibniz) was a prominent German mathematician, philosopher, physicist and inventor. He wrote extensively on 26 topics covering wide range of subjects among which were Geology, Medicine, Biology, Epidemiology, Paleontology, Psychology, Engineering, Philology, Sociology, Ethics, History, Politics, Law and Music Theory
In a manuscript Leibniz used the word “function” to mean any quantity varying from point to point of a curve. Leibniz provided the foundations of Formal Logic and Boolean Algebra, which are fundamental for modern day computers. For all his remarkable discoveries and contributions in various fields, Leibniz is hailed as “The Father of Applied Sciences”.