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Leonhard Euler

1707 - 1783

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Leonhard Euler ( OY-lər; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss polymath 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonhard Euler is the 9th most popular mathematician (down from 7th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Switzerland and the most popular Swiss Mathematician.

Leonhard Euler is most famous for his work in mathematics. He contributed to the fields of geometry, trigonometry, infinitesimal calculus, and graph theory.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Leonhard Euler ranks 9 out of 1,004. Before him are Carl Friedrich Gauss, Blaise Pascal, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Euclid, Fibonacci, and Ada Lovelace. After him are Omar Khayyam, John Forbes Nash Jr., Bernhard Riemann, Hypatia, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, and Al-Biruni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1707, Leonhard Euler ranks 2. Before him is Carl Linnaeus. After him are Carlo Goldoni, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Henry Fielding, Louis I of Spain, Frederick, Prince of Wales, Louis-Michel van Loo, Louis, Duke of Brittany, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Moshe Chaim Luzzatto. Among people deceased in 1783, Leonhard Euler ranks 1. After him are Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Capability Brown, Johann Adolph Hasse, Étienne Bézout, Yosa Buson, Antonio Soler, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Grigory Orlov, Johann Kirnberger, and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Leonhard Euler ranks 2 out of 1,015. Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712). After him are Le Corbusier (1887), Carl Jung (1875), Paracelsus (1493), Henry Dunant (1828), Jean Piaget (1896), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Jacob Bernoulli (1654), Huldrych Zwingli (1484), Sepp Blatter (1936), and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Leonhard Euler ranks 1. After him are Jacob Bernoulli (1654), Johann Bernoulli (1667), Gabriel Cramer (1704), Jost Bürgi (1552), Jakob Steiner (1796), Paul Guldin (1577), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750), and Johann II Bernoulli (1710).

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