Leonhard Euler
1707 - 1783
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Leonhard Euler was a Swiss mathematician who made enormous contibutions to a wide range of mathematics and physics including analytic geometry, trigonometry, geometry, calculus and number theory.
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Additional Material in MacTutor
- Eulogy by Condorcet
- Eulogy by Nicolas Fuss
- Königsberg bridges
- Carl B Boyer's Foremost Modern Textbook
| Honours awarded to Leonhard Euler (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| Fellow of the Royal Society | 1747 |
| Lunar features | Crater Euler and Rima Euler |
| Paris street names | Rue Euler (8th Arrondissement) |
| Popular biographies list | Number 7 |
Other Web sites
- Ian Bruce A translation of some early papers
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- The Euler Archive
- NNDB
- R J Wilson (also available as a Video version)
- Clark Kimberling
- Rouse Ball
- Swiss Mathematical Society video
- Mathematical Genealogy Project
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