Leonhard Euler
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Portrait by Jakob Emanuel Handmann (1753)
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| Born |
15 April 1707 Basel, Switzerland |
| Died | 18 September 1783 (aged 76) [OS: 7 September 1783] Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
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Kingdom of Prussia Russian Empire Switzerland |
| Fields | Mathematics and physics |
| Institutions |
Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences Berlin Academy |
| Alma mater | University of Basel |
| Thesis | Dissertatio physica de sono ("Physical dissertation on sound") (1726) |
| Doctoral advisor | Johann Bernoulli |
| Doctoral students |
Nicolas Fuss Johann Hennert Stepan Rumovsky |
| Other notable students | Joseph-Louis Lagrange |
| Known for | See full list |
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He is the father of the mathematician Johann Euler.
He is listed by an academic genealogy as the equivalent to the doctoral advisor of Joseph Louis Lagrange. |
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Leonhard Euler (/ˈɔɪlər/ OY-lər;Swiss Standard German: [ˈɔɪlər]; German Standard German: [ˈɔʏlɐ]; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) 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, optics, astronomy, and music theory.
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