Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, music theorist 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.
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- Born in
- Basel
- Educated at
- University of Basel
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Johann Bernoulli
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Nicolas Fuss
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1707
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Birth1783
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