Leonhard Euler

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Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler was born on April 15 1707 in Basel Switzerland and later died on Sept 18 1783. His father
was a pastor and wanted his son to follow in his footsteps and sent him to the University of Basel to prepare
for the ministry but geometry soon became his favorite subject. Through the intercession of Bernoulli Euler
obtained his father's consent to change his major to mathematics. After failing to obtain a physics position
at Basel in 1726 he joined the St. Petersburg Academy of Science in 1727. When funds were withheld from
the academy he served as a medical lieutenant in the Russian navy from 1727 to 1730. In St. Petersburg he
boarded at the home of Bernoulli's son Daniel. He became the professor of physics at the academy in 1730
and professor of mathematics in 1733. When he married and left Bernoulli's house. His reputation grew
after the publication of many articles and his book Mechanica which extensively presented Newtonian
dynamics in the form of mathematical analy!
sis for the first time.
In 1741 Euler joined the Berlin Academy of Science where he remained for 25 years. In 1744 he became
director of the academy's mathematics section. During his stay in Berlin he wrote ...

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