Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler, German Standard German )was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician and engineer who made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics like infinitesimal calculus and graph theory while also making pioneering contributions to several branches such as topology and analytic number theory. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion of a mathematical function. He is also known for his work in mechanics, fluid dynamics,...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth15 April 1707
CountrySwitzerland
Leonhard Euler quotes about
Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.
Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.