Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783) From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. Leonhard Euler was born at Bale on April 15, 1707, and died at St. Petersburg on September 7, 1783. he was the son of a Lutheran minister who had settled at Bale, and was educated in his native town under the direction of John Bernoulli, with whose sons Daniel and Nicholas ...

Leonhard Euler By Katerina Kechris Euler was one the leading mathematicians of the 18th century. Although the majority of his work was in pure mathematics, he contributed to other disciplines, such as astronomy and physics, as well. In his lifetime he published more than 500 books and papers, and another 400 were published posthumously. Euler was born in Basel, Switzerland on April 15, 1707.

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