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  From Russell's "History of Western Philosophy": LEIBNIZ (1646-1716) was one of the supreme intellects of all time, but as a human being he was not admirable. He had, it is true, the virtues that one would wish to find mentioned in a testimonial to a prospective employee: he was industrious, frugal, temperate, and financially honest. But he was wholly destitute of those higher philosophic virtues that are so notable in Spinoza. His best thought was not such as would win...

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  @tao Out of curiosity, how difficult are such interval arithmetic calculations? I'm curious how far one is from a Lean version of Abramowitz and Stegun.