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“Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.” – Richard Feynman, 20th century American physicist on Euler’s identity formula. one of the most remarkable, almost astounding, formulas in all of mathematics.” – Frederick the Great in letters to Voltaire. “Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir … My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. – Pierre-Simon Laplace (attributed), French mathematician and astronomer. “Read Euler: he is our master in everything.” – François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. “He calculated without any apparent effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air." Oscar or not, these were some of the best performances of 2022 Euler's contemporary colleagues, and even mathematicians working today, recognize him as one of the greatest mathematicians to have ever lived. He received a number of Paris Academy Prizes for his work in astronomy, which mostly focused on understanding comets and determining their orbits. He also popularized the use of the Greek letter π to denote the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.Īrguably, his most notable contribution to the field was Euler’s identity formula, (e iπĮuler also made contributions in the fields of number theory, graph theory, logic, and applied mathematics.
Born and educated in Basel, Switzerland, Euler was responsible for much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation still used today.Įuler was a prolific mathematician whose work spanned the fields of geometry, calculus, trigonometry, algebra, number theory, physics, lunar theory, and even astronomy.Įuler was the first to introduce the notation for a function f(x). Today’s Google Doodle celebrates mathematics, and the 306th birthday of the 18th century’s pre-eminent mathematician, Leonhard Euler.
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