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Leonhard Euler

Euler, Leonhard (1707-83), Swiss mathematician, whose major work was done in the
field of pure mathematics, a field that he helped to found. Euler was born in
Basel and studied at the University of Basel under the Swiss mathematician
Johann Bernoulli, obtaining his master's degree at the age of 16. In 1727, at
the invitation of Catherine I, empress of Russia, Euler became a member of the
faculty of the Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. He was appointed
professor of physics in 1730 and professor of mathematics in 1733. In 1741 he
became professor of mathematics at the Berlin Academy of Sciences at the urging
of the Prussian king Frederick the Great. Euler returned to St. Petersburg ...

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and formulated the rule that only convergent infinite
series can properly be evaluated. He also discussed three-dimensional surfaces
and proved that the conic sections are represented by the general equation of
the second degree in two dimensions. Other works dealt with calculus, including
the calculus of variations, number theory, imaginary numbers, and determinate
and indeterminate algebra. Euler, although principally a mathematician, made
contributions to astronomy, mechanics, optics, and ...

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