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- ↑ Rescher, N. (2003). On Leibniz, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh University Press.
- ↑ Davis, M. (2011). The universal computer: The road from Leibniz to Turing, (AK Peters/CRC Press).
- ↑ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- ↑ Antognazza, M. R. (2009). Leibniz: an intellectual biography, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, winner of the 2010 Pfizer Award)
