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Also known as Euler, Leonhard, L. Euler, Euler

Schweizer Mathematiker, Physiker, Ingenieur und Philosoph (1707–1783)

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Leonhard Euler was a mathematician, physicist, university teacher, and writer. He was educated at the University of Basel and worked in mathematical analysis, number theory, shipbuilding, and calculus of variations. His notable works include Euler's four-square identity, Euler's formula, Euler's theorem, and the gamma function. He was a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and the French Academy of Sciences.

Born in 1707 in Basel, he died in 1783 in Saint Petersburg from a cerebral hemorrhage. He held citizenship in the Old Swiss Confederacy, the Russian Empire, and the Kingdom of Prussia. His residences included Basel, Saint Petersburg, and Berlin. Euler spoke Latin, German, French, and Russian. He suffered from blindness and was Protestant. His child was Johann Euler.

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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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Total plays
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Quotes

  • Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
  • Now I will have less distraction.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • La construction d'une machine propre à exprimer tous les sons de nos paroles , avec toutes les articulations , seroit sans-doute une découverte bien importante. … La chose ne me paroît pas impossible.
  • A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or constant quantities.

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Leonhard Euler, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Letters to a German princess about various objects from physics and philosophy. 1

Letters to a German princess about various objects from physics and philosophy. 1

Introduction to Computing Art

Introduction to Computing Art

Introduction to Computing Art

Introduction to Computing Art

Zweyter Theil

Zweyter Theil

Leonhard Euler Full instructions on algebra

Leonhard Euler Full instructions on algebra

Excerpt from Mr. Leonhard Euler’s complete guide to algebra. 2

Excerpt from Mr. Leonhard Euler’s complete guide to algebra. 2

Leonhard Euler’s complete instructions on the nettling and raising of algebra. 1

Leonhard Euler’s complete instructions on the nettling and raising of algebra. 1

Leonhard Euler’s complete instructions on the nettling and raising of algebra. 2. (1797). - [10], 403 S.

Leonhard Euler’s complete instructions on the nettling and raising of algebra. 2. (1797). - [10], 403 S.

Letters to a German princess about various objects from physics and philosophy. 2

Letters to a German princess about various objects from physics and philosophy. 2

Letters to a German princess about various objects from physics and philosophy. 2

Letters to a German princess about various objects from physics and philosophy. 2

Letters to a German princess about various objects from physics and philosophy. 2

Letters to a German princess about various objects from physics and philosophy. 2

Excerpt from Leonhard Euler’s complete guide to algebra

Excerpt from Leonhard Euler’s complete guide to algebra

Leonhard Euler’s complete instructions on the nettling and raising of algebra. 1. (1796). - [12], 312 S.

Leonhard Euler’s complete instructions on the nettling and raising of algebra. 1. (1796). - [12], 312 S.

Letters to a German princess about various objects from physics and philosophy. 3

Letters to a German princess about various objects from physics and philosophy. 3

Leonhard Euler’s letters to a German princess about various objects of physics and philosophy: edited on the new after French; in three threads. 2

Leonhard Euler’s letters to a German princess about various objects of physics and philosophy: edited on the new after French; in three threads. 2

"The laws of balance and movement of fluid bodies

"The laws of balance and movement of fluid bodies

Leonhard Euler’s letters to a German princess about various objects of physics and philosophy: edited on the new after French; in three threads. 3, Third or Supplementary Theil

Leonhard Euler’s letters to a German princess about various objects of physics and philosophy: edited on the new after French; in three threads. 3, Third or Supplementary Theil

Leonhard Euler’s complete instructions on the nettling and raising of algebra. 2

Leonhard Euler’s complete instructions on the nettling and raising of algebra. 2

Reasonable thoughts of the space, the orth, the duration and the time: translated from the French of the H. Professor Eulers, theils from various unprinted letters of this famous man: Next to some annotations and an attempt at an unpartheycal history of the disputes about these things

Reasonable thoughts of the space, the orth, the duration and the time: translated from the French of the H. Professor Eulers, theils from various unprinted letters of this famous man: Next to some annotations and an attempt at an unpartheycal history of the disputes about these things

Letters to a German princess about various objects from physics and philosophy. 1

Letters to a German princess about various objects from physics and philosophy. 1

Letters to a German princess about various objects from physics and philosophy. 1

Letters to a German princess about various objects from physics and philosophy. 1

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Article · Deutsch

Leonhard Euler (lateinisch Leonhardus Eulerus; * 15. April 1707 in Basel; † 7. Septemberjul. / 18. September 1783greg. in Sankt Petersburg) war ein Schweizer Mathematiker, Physiker, Astronom, Geograph, Logiker und Ingenieur. Er machte wichtige und weitreichende Entdeckungen in vielen Zweigen der Mathematik, wie beispielsweise der Infinitesimalrechnung und der Graphentheorie. Gleichzeitig leistete Euler fundamentale Beiträge auf anderen Gebieten wie der Topologie und der analytischen Zahlentheorie. Er prägte grosse Teile der bis heute weltweit gebräuchlichen mathematischen Terminologie und Notation. Beispielsweise führte Euler den Begriff der mathematischen Funktion in die Analysis ein. Er ist zudem für seine Arbeiten in der Mechanik, Strömungsdynamik, Optik, Astronomie und Musiktheorie bekannt. Euler, der den grössten Teil seines Lebens in Sankt Petersburg und in Berlin verbrachte, war einer der bedeutendsten Mathematiker des 18. Jahrhunderts. Seine herausragenden Leistungen ebbten auch nach seiner Erblindung im Jahre 1771 nicht ab und wurden bereits von seinen Zeitgenossen anerkannt. Er gilt heute als einer der brillantesten und produktivsten Mathematiker aller Zeiten. Seine gesammelten Schriften Opera omnia umfassen bisher 76 Bände – ein mathematisches Werk, dessen Umfang bis heute unerreicht bleibt. Leonhard Euler zu Ehren erhielten zwei mathematische Konstanten seinen Namen: die Eulersche Zahl (Basis des natürlichen Logarithmus) und die Euler-Mascheroni-Konstante aus der Zahlentheorie, die gelegentlich auch Eulersche Konstante genannt wird. Leonhard Eulers Arbeiten inspirierten viele Generationen von Mathematikern, darunter Pierre-Simon Laplace, Carl Gustav Jacobi und Carl Friedrich Gauß, nachhaltig. Laplace soll zu seinen Schülern gesagt haben: «Lest Euler, er ist unser aller Meister!».

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