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Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 15 April 1707
- Died
- 18 September 1783, 7 September 1783, 1783
- Place of birth
- Basel
- Place of death
- Saint Petersburg
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Leonhard
- Family name
- Euler
- Father
- Paul III Euler
- Mother
- Marguerite Brucker
- Field of work
- mathematical analysis, number theory, shipbuilding, calculus of variations, astronomy, mechanics, theory of differential equations, ballistics, optics, mathematics, music theory, differential calculus
- Occupation
- mathematician, physicist, university teacher, writer, music theorist, astronomer, scientist, inventor, executive, geographer
- Citizenship
- Old Swiss Confederacy, Russian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia
- Religion
- Protestantism, reformed
- academic degree
- master's degree, Doctor of Philosophy
- archives at
- University Library of Tübingen
- cause of death
- cerebral hemorrhage
- depicted by
- Portrait of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), Leonhard Euler
- described by source
- Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Russian Biographical Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Riemann's Music Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, New International Encyclopedia (1902–1905), Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, BEIC Digital Library, Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Johann Bernoulli
- doctoral student
- Nicolas Fuss
- educated at
- University of Basel
- employer
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
- family
- House of Euler
- influenced by
- Pierre de Fermat, Christiaan Huygens, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- blindness
- member of
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society, Academy of Sciences of Turin
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Basel
- name in native language
- Leonhard Euler
- notable work
- Euler's theorem, Euler's rotation theorem, Euler's theorem in geometry, Euler's sum of powers conjecture, Euler's polyhedron formula, Euler–Lagrange equation, Cauchy–Euler equation, Euler's totient function, Euler's identity, Euler's four-square identity, Euler's formula, Euler's theorem
- place of burial
- Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery, Lazarev Cemetery
- related category
- Category:Things named after Leonhard Euler
- residence
- Basel, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Berlin, Q15782821
- student
- Golovin, Mikhail Evseevich, Petr Inokhodtsev, Semen Kotelnikov, Anders Johan Lexell, Stepan Rumovsky, Johann Euler, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Nicolas Fuss
- topic has template
- Template:Leonhard Euler
- topic's main category
- Category:Leonhard Euler
- work location
- Saint Petersburg, Berlin, Basel, Saint Petersburg, Berlin
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