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1 My Favorite Mathematician
OC Josh Zimmer

2 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

3 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

4 Work Compounding Interest Half-lives & Growth and Decay constants
Euler’s Identity: eίπ + 1= 0 Euler’s Formula: eίx=cos(x) + ί sin(x)

5 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

6 My Swiss Miss


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