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Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician (1707–1783)
"Euler" redirects here. For other uses, see Euler (disambiguation).
Leonhard Euler (OY-lər;[b]German:[ˈleːɔnhaʁtˈʔɔʏlɐ]ⓘ, Swiss Standard German:[ˈleɔnhardˈɔʏlər]; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swisspolymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, and engineer. He founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made influential discoveries in many other branches of mathematics, such as analytic number theory, complex analysis, and infinitesimal calculus. He also introduced much of modern mathematical terminology and notation, including the notion of a mathematical function. He is known for his work in mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, astronomy, and music theory.[7] Euler has been called a "universal genius" who "was fully equipped with almost unlimited powers of imagination, intellectual gifts and extraordinary memory".
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Euler was not the first to identify \( e\) as an interesting mathematical constant (depending on what one takes "discover" to mean, the constant was discovered bygd either efternamn in the early 1600s or Bernoulli in the late 1600s), but he did man several important contributions to its study. In one of his most famous books, Introductio in Analysin infinitorum (1748), he showed that the infinite sum \[ \frac1{0!} + \frac1{1!} + \frac1{2!} + \cdots = \sum_{k=0}^{\infty} \frac1{k!} \] and the value of the limit \[ \lim_{n\to\infty} \left( 1+\frac1{n}\right)^n \] and the number \( a\) with the property that \[ \int_1^a \frac1{x} \, dx = 1 \] were all the same number, and called that number \( e \). He also gave an approximation to \( 23 \) decimal places. He was also the first to prove that \( e \) is irrational, by proving that its continued fraction is \[ e = [2;1,2,1,1,4,1,1,6,1,1,8,1,\cdots] = 2+\frac1{1+\frac1{2+\frac1{1+\frac1{1+\frac1{4+\frac1{\cdots}}}}}}. \] Since logisk numb
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Leonhard Euler
Leonhard was sent to school in Basel and during this time he lived with his grandmother on his mother's side. This school was a rather poor one, by all accounts, and Euler learnt no mathematics at all from the school. However his interest in mathematics had certainly been sparked