Euler

By impossiblemath
  • Euler was born in Basel, Switzerland

    Euler was born in Basel, Switzerland

    Mother: Marguerite Brucker Father: Paul Euler
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    Leonhard Euler

  • University of Basel

    at the age of 13

  • Master of Philosophy

    dissertation compared Descartes and Newton

  • De Sono

    dissertation on the propogation of sound

  • Imperial russian Academy of sciences

    promoted from his junior post to a position in the mathematics department.

  • Paris Academy Prize Problem Competition

  • Professor of Physics

  • married Katharina Gsell

  • becam nearly blind in right eye

  • Berlin Academy

    left St. Petersburg due to continuing turmoil in Russia

  • Introductio in analysin infintorum

  • Institutiones calculi differentialis

  • Royal sweedish Academy of Sciences

    elected a foreign member

  • differential calculus

  • suffered cataract in left eye

    almost completely blind in both eyes

  • returned to St. Petersburg Academy

  • lost his home in a fire

  • Katharina died

  • married Salome Abigail

  • suffered a brain hemorrhage and died

  • marble bust was placed at the Russian Academy of sciences