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Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, music theorist and engineer. He founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made influential discoveries in many other branches of mathematics, such as analytic number theory, complex analysis, and infinitesimal calculus. He also introduced much of modern mathematical terminology and notation, including the notion of a mathematical function. He is known for his work in mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, astronomy, and music theory. Euler has been called a "universal genius" who "was fully equipped with almost unlimited powers of imagination, intellectual gifts and extraordinary memory". He spent most of his adult life in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and in Berlin, then the capital of Prussia.
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Born 15 April 1707 · Died 18 September 1783 · Q7604
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spektrum.de: Buchkritik zu »Leonhard Euler (1707–1783)«
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To publish its remaining projected volumes in Series IV in online format only
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Christian Science Monitor: Leonhard Euler: Prolific writer, pioneering mathematician, and theorist nonpareil
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Christian Science Monitor: Leonhard Euler, his famous formula, and why he's so revered
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welt.de: Leonhard Euler: Wahrer Erfinder des Sudoku war ein Schweizer
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To commemorate the 250th anniversary of his birth, his tomb was moved to the Lazarevskoe Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery
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“The Foremost Textbook of Modern Times”
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Published “Observations on the Pulmonary Arterial Blood Pressure in the Cat” in Acta Physiologica Scandinavica — cited 1,034 times.
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Published “Folgerungen aus der Diracschen Theorie des Positrons” in Zeitschrift f�r Physik — cited 2,655 times.
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“Presidential Address British Association for the Advancement of Science”
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The Swiss Academy of Sciences created the Euler Commission and charged it with the publication of Euler's complete works
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“Sir, a + b n n = x {\displaystyle {\frac {a+b^{n}}{n}}=x} , hence God exists –reply!”
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The Russian Academy of Sciences installed a new monument, replacing his overgrown grave plaque
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Died 1783-09-18.
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“To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.”
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“Lettres à une Princesse d'Allemagne sur différentes questions de physique et de philosophie, Royer, 1788, p. 265”
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“Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.”
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Career landmark: professor (1766).
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Career landmark: professor (1731–1741).
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Career landmark: adjunct (1727–1730).
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Studied at University of Basel (1720).
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Born 1707-04-15.
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