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Leonhard Euler
(15 Apr 1707 - 18 Sep 1783)
Swiss mathematician.
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Science Quotes by Leonhard Euler (2)
esqroot(-1p)-1= 0
— Leonhard Euler
A special case of a formula published by Euler in his Introductio ad analysin infinitorum (1748), Vol. 1. However, he did not print it, either there or elsewhere. An early printing, maybe the first, is due to J. F. Français in Annales des mathematique pures et appliquées 1813-1814, 4, 66. The formula was also highlighted by the American mathematician Benjamin Peirce around 1840. But its rise to 'fame' remains obscure.
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For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of the maximum or minimum does not appear.
— Leonhard Euler
Methodus Inveniendi Uneas Curvas (1744), 1st addition, art. 1, trans. Ivor Grattan-Guinness.
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Quotes by others about Leonhard Euler(2)
Lisez Euler, lisez Euler, c'est notre maître à tous.
(Read Euler, read Euler, he is our master in everything.)
(Read Euler, read Euler, he is our master in everything.)
Quoted in Petr Beckmann, A History of Pi, 157.
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