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Leonhard Euler

15 April 1707 - 18 September 1783
is said to have been the most prolific mathematician in history. His 866 books and articles represent about one third of the entire body of research on mathematics, theoretical physics, and engineering mechanics published between 1726 and 1800.
Euler was born in Basel, Switzerland. His father, a pastor, wanted his son to follow in his footsteps and sent him to the University of Basel to prepare for the ministry, but geometry soon became his favorite subject. Under the teachings of Johann Bernoulli, Euler obtained his father's consent to change his major to mathematics. After failing to obtain a physics position at Basel in 1726, he joined the St. ...

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special functions, introducing the beta and gamma transcendental functions. He also worked on the origins of the calculus of variations. But his work did not only reside in math. He was also a pioneer in the field of topology and made number theory into a science, stating the prime number theorem and the law of biquadratic reciprocity. In physics he articulated Newtonian dynamics and laid the foundation of analytical mechanics, especially in his Theory of the Motions of Rigid Bodies (1765). Like his teacher Johann Bernoulli, he added to the research of continuum mechanics, and somewhat tinkered with kinetic theory of gases with the molecular model. With Alexis Clairaut he studied lunar theory. He also did fundamental research on elasticity, the wave theory of light, and the hydro mechanics of ships. In his Introduction to the Analysis of Infinities, Euler gave the first full analytical treatment of algebra, the theory of equations, trigonometry, and analytical geometry. Euler ...

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