BIRTH AND DEATH
Birth: 4/15/1707 Death: 9/18/1783
OCCUPATION
scientist
BIOGRAPHY SUMMARY
Leonhard Euler was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, 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.
NOTABLE WORK
Euler's formula
WHY THEY MATTER
Leonhard Euler was intellectually unique and groundbreaking due to his vast contributions across multiple fields of study, including mathematics, physics, astronomy, and engineering. He played a pivotal role in the development of graph theory, topology, analytic number theory, complex analysis, and infinitesimal calculus, while also shaping modern mathematical terminology and notation with his introduction of the concept of mathematical functions. His broad range of achievements and influence in various disciplines earned him the reputation as a universal genius with unparalleled imagination, intellectual prowess, and memory.
FAMOUS QUOTE
Madam, I have come from a country wherepeopleare hanged if theytalk.In Berlin, to the Queen Mother of Prussia, on his lack of conversation in his meeting with her, on his return from Russia, as quoted inScience in Russian Culture : A History to 1860(1963) Alexander VucinichVariant:Madame... I have come from a country where one can be hanged for what one says.
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