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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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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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5 total works indexed

The atomic simulation environment—a Python library for working with atoms
· 2017 · cited 3,331x
Folgerungen aus der Diracschen Theorie des Positrons
· 1936 · cited 2,610x
Microscopic Traffic Simulation using SUMO
· 2018 · cited 2,603x
Dulaglutide and cardiovascular outcomes in type 2 diabetes (REWIND): a double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial
· 2019 · cited 2,542x
Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees
· 2014 · cited 2,494x

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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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Commons category: Leonhard Euler
date of birth: 1707-04-15
Commons Creator page: Leonhard Euler
Commons gallery: Leonhard Euler
name in native language: Leonhard Euler
date of death: 1783-00-00
Stack Exchange tag: hsm.stackexchange.com/tags/euler

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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

Introduction to Computing Art

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Leonhard Euler Full instructions on algebra

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. 2. (1797). - [10], 403 S.

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

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.

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

"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 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

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

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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