Gottfried von Leibniz was a scientist, philosopher, mathematician, and a lawyer. His most notable achievements include his advances in calculus, and psychology. Leibniz was born in on July 1st, 1646 at 6:45. This is well documented because his father, Friedrich Leibniz, thought that his son was a prodigy. Indeed, Leibniz showed extreme intellect at an early age. At 12, Gottfried von Leibniz was fluent in Latin and was learning Greek. He had astonished his teachers by using Aristotelian logic, and then turned around and found loopholes in the same logic he had just used. Aristotelian logic stated the ideas of a statement either being true or false. This would play into his ideas of binary code and on and off system in his first calculator. At 19 he gained his Master in Philosophy degree, and at 21 he obtained his Doctors Degree in law. As a lawyer, he traveled frequently and enjoyed traveling, traversing all over Europe to places like Italy, Germany, France, Poland, and England. After graduating from the university, he was offered a teaching job, which he declined. His reason for this decision was that he thought that if he worked at the university, he could not contribute to science. He offered instead his services to noblemen, and gained titles such as Baron of the Empire, was admitted as a member of the Royal Society of London, and became a member at the Akademie des Sciences in France. He also put up his own scientific academy in Germany, becoming the creator of the famous Akademie der Wissenschaften.Leibniz contributed very much towards the advancement of mathematics and sciences. He invented a system that was the counterpart to the delta, or change in two numbers, system. By creating this terminology, Leibniz allowed people to show infinite changes in numbers. Gottfried von Leibniz also created the matrix system, which was the basis for the modern computer. In a matrix, several units of data can be stored, and it can be multiplied, divided, and subtracted just as a single unit of data can be. It was this idea that helped Leibniz create an adding machine for his father, who was an accountant. While the calculator did not run on binary code, Leibniz was a strong advocate for the use of binary code because it represented Aristotelian logic. The ideas of true and false corresponded to the on and off, or open and closed states of modern circuitry. In a way, Leibniz was the father of the modern computer system. The calculator was used for multiplying, using the simple system of repeated addition, and worked by using repeated decimals to get the required affect. Leibniz also discovered inverse tangents, which are very important in modern geometry. Tangents are used to find angles in a right triangle, which helps with ballistics, air traffic control, and other professions. Leibniz was also a huge lover of Chinese culture. He read several Chinese texts concerning Confucianism and the ethical standards of Confucius. He also found out about the Chinese hexagram, a fortune telling device, was similar to his system of binary code, and that the hexagrams corresponded to the numbers 000000 to 111111, and this was proof for him of the Chinese philosophys omnipotence.