Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is one of the most brilliant scientists in the history of science. He lived at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, in an era of great social, political and scientific changes. His influence extends to almost all areas of knowledge: physics, philosophy, history, jurisprudence... But Leibniz’s main contribution, without a doubt, was made in mathematics: in addition to binary calculus and one of the first calculators in history, he created, independently of Newton, the most A powerful tool for the mathematical description of the physical world is the analysis of infinitesimals.