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Leonhard Euler
Also known as Euler, Leonhard, L. Euler, Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
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Leonhard Euler was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer who lived from 1707 to 1783 and made foundational contributions to mathematics and science. His work remains influential today because he developed theories and methods across multiple fields that became essential to modern mathematics, physics, and engineering.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1707
- Died
- 1783
- Works
- 381
Top works
- Commentationes arithmeticae collectae
- Lettres inédites de Joseph-Louis Lagrange à Léonard Euler
- Leonhard Eulers Einleitung in die Analysis des Unendlichen
- Leonhardi Euleri Opera postuma mathematica et physica
- Briefe an eine deutsche prinzessinn über verschiedene gegenstände aus der physik und philosophie
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- 15
- Total plays
- 21
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Leonhard Euler, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Leonhard Euler (/ˈɔɪlər/ OY-lər; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) 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.
Euler is credited for popularizing the Greek letter
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