EULER

WHO?

• His name is leonhard Euler
• He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus
• He was a publisher he would publish articles

WHAT?

• credited for introducing and popularizing modern notation and terminology, particularly in analysis.
• Euler's equations for motion of fluids, and the Euler-Lagrange equation (that comes from calculus of variations)
• defines the exponentials of imaginary numbers in terms of trigonometric functions.
• He was able to do prodigious calculations in his head, a necessity after he went blind.

WHEN

• He was born April,15,1707
• Died September,18,1783
• Lived in st. Petersburg
• Married twice and had 13 kids
• Five of his kids died!

WHERE?

• He lived in st.petersburg, Russia
• enrolled at the University of Basel,
• received his Master of Philosophy
• He spent most of his career in Berlin
• Joined Academy of science