Leonhard Euler, Swiss Mathematician and Scientist(1707-1783)

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by Jakob Emanuel Handmann

Just the Facts:

• Name: Leonhard Euler
• Birth: April 15, 1707, Basel, Switzerland
• Death: September 18, 1783, Saint Petersburg, Russia
• Language: German; Latin
• Who he was: Swiss mathematician and scientist who wrote Lettres à une princesse d'Allemagne sur divers sujets de physique et de philosophie (Letters to a German Princess, On Different Subjects in Physics and Philosophy); also, science and math texts
• Included in lists (What's This?): GGB, HC

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