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* Leonhard Euler, ( 1707 – 1783 ), Swiss mathematician and physicist
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The young Ampère, however, soon resumed his Latin lessons, which enable him to master the works of Leonhard Euler and Daniel Bernoulli.
After finishing his studies he went on long educational voyages from 1710 to 1724 through Europe, visiting other German states, England, Holland, Italy, and France, meeting with many famous mathematicians, such as Gottfried Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, and Nicholas I Bernoulli.
Euler's formula, named after Leonhard Euler, is a mathematical formula in complex analysis that establishes the deep relationship between the trigonometric functions and the complex exponential function.
The formula was discovered independently by Leonhard Euler and Colin Maclaurin around 1735 ( and later generalized as Darboux's formula ).
Euler's conjecture is a disproved conjecture in mathematics related to Fermat's last theorem which was proposed by Leonhard Euler in 1769.
This view was further elaborated by Belidor ( representation of rough surfaces with spherical asperities, 1737 ) and Leonhard Euler ( 1750 ) who derived the angle of repose of a weight on an inclined plane and first distinguished between static and kinetic friction ..
The paper written by Leonhard Euler on the Seven Bridges of Königsberg and published in 1736 is regarded as the first paper in the history of graph theory.
De Camp and Ley have claimed ( in their Lands Beyond ) that Leonhard Euler also proposed a hollow-Earth idea, getting rid of multiple shells and postulating an interior sun across to provide light to advanced inner-Earth civilization but they provide no references ; indeed, Euler did not propose a hollow-Earth, but there is a slightly related thought experiment.
Soon after the birth of Leonhard, the Eulers moved from Basel to the town of Riehen, where Euler spent most of his childhood.
Paul Euler was a friend of the Bernoulli family — Johann Bernoulli, who was then regarded as Europe's foremost mathematician, would eventually be the most important influence on young Leonhard.
Euler was at this point studying theology, Greek, and Hebrew at his father's urging, in order to become a pastor, but Bernoulli convinced Paul Euler that Leonhard was destined to become a great mathematician.
In 1785, the Russian Academy of Sciences put a marble bust of Leonhard Euler on a pedestal next to the Director's seat and, in 1837, placed a headstone on Euler's grave.
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Basel was distinguished for its mathematicians, such as Leonhard Euler ( 1707 – 1783 ), and three members of the Bernoulli family, the brothers Jakob ( 1654 – 1705 ) and Johann ( 1667 – 1748 ), and the latter's son Daniel ( 1700 – 1782 ).
Basel was particularly distinguished for its mathematicians, such as Leonhard Euler ( 1707 – 1783 ), and three members of the Bernoulli family refugees from Antwerp, the brothers Jakob ( 1654 – 1705 ) and Johann ( 1667 – 1748 ), and the latter's son Daniel ( 1700 – 1782 ).
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The Earth's axis of rotation – and hence the position of the North Pole – was commonly believed to be fixed ( relative to the surface of the Earth ) until, in the 18th century, the mathematician Leonhard Euler predicted that the axis might " wobble " slightly.
He also gained access to the physics lab of Leonhard Sohncke ( Direcktor, Physikalischen Institut der Universität Jena, 1883 – 1886 ; Professor der Physik an der Technischen Hochschule München 1886-1897 ), who was studying crystallisation during that period.
* June 8 – Leonhard Euler writes to James Stirling describing the Euler – Maclaurin formula, providing a connection between integrals and calculus.
The Fourier series is named in honour of Joseph Fourier ( 1768 – 1830 ), who made important contributions to the study of trigonometric series, after preliminary investigations by Leonhard Euler, Jean le Rond d ' Alembert, and Daniel Bernoulli.
Venn diagrams are very similar to Euler diagrams, which were invented by Leonhard Euler ( 1708 – 1783 ) in the 18th century.
Leonhard Hutter ( also Hütter, Latinized as Hutterus ; January 19, 1563 – October 23, 1616 ) was a German Lutheran theologian.
These terms may mean " magpie killer ", due to their use for luring carnivorous birds to hunters – but perhaps more likely " killer magpie ", considering that the bird was believed to be a peculiar sort of magpie by Johann Leonhard Frisch and others, and that another vernacular English name was " murdering pie ".
The first edition of Niebuhr's Roman History was translated into English by F. A. Walter ( 1827 ), but was immediately superseded by the translation of the second edition by Julius Hare and Connop Thirlwall, completed by William Smith and Leonhard Schmitz ( last edition, 1847 – 1851 ).
The Swiss Psalm was composed in 1841 by Alberich Zwyssig ( 1808 – 1854 ), with lyrics by Leonhard Widmer ( 1809 – 1867 ).
Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel ( 16 September 1853 – 5 July 1927 ) was a German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics.
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