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Leonhard Euler


Leonhard Euler




Euler made large bounds in modern analytic geometry and trigonometry. He


made decisive and formative contributions to geometry, calculus and


number theory.


Born: 15 April 1707 in Basel, Switzerland


Died: 18 Sept 1783 in St Petersburg, Russia





Introduction




Euler's father wanted his son to follow him into the church and sent him


to the University of Basel to prepare for the ministry. However geometry


soon became his favourite subject. Euler obtained his father's consent


to change to mathematics after Johann Bernoulli had used his persuasion.


Johann Bernoulli became his teacher.




He joined the St. Petersburg Academy of Science in 1727, two years after


it was founded by Catherine I the wife of Peter the Great. Euler served


as a medical lieutenant in the Russian navy from 1727 to 1730. In St


Petersburg he lived with Daniel Bernoulli. He became professor of


physics at the academy in 1730 and professor of mathematics in 1733. He


married and left Johann Bernoulli's house in 1733. He had 13 children


altogether of which 5 survived their infancy. He claimed that he made


some of his greatest discoveries while holding a baby on his arm with


other children playing round his feet.




The publication of many articles and his book Mechanica (1736-37), which


extensively presented Newtonian dynamics in the form of mathematical


analysis for the first time, started Euler on the way to major


mathematical work.




In 1741, at the invitation of Frederick the Great, Euler joined the


Berlin Academy of Science, where he remained for 25 years. ...

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