My Favorite Mathematician OC Josh Zimmer
Leonhard P. Euler Born April 15, 1707 Died Sept 18, 1783 Swiss born University of Basel Further educated at Russian and German Academy of Science
He still managed to produce ~1 paper per week Photographic Memory Blindness Fever Cataract He still managed to produce ~1 paper per week Photographic Memory
Work Compounding Interest Half-lives & Growth and Decay constants Euler’s Identity: eίπ + 1= 0 Euler’s Formula: eίx=cos(x) + ί sin(x)
At The End Fire took his home and almost his life in 1773 Lost wife of 40 years 1773 Remarried 1776 Died in St. Petersburg of a brain hemorrage
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