![]() ![]() He wrote two articles on reverse trajectory which were highly valued by his teacher Bernoulli. On his father's wishes, Euler he began to study theology, but spent all his spare time studying mathematics. In 1723 he gained his Master's degree with a dissertation comparing the natural philosophy systems of Newton and Descartes. True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand. I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. Johann Bernoulli soon discovered Euler's great potential for mathematics. Euler entered the University in 1720, at the age of 14, first to obtain a general education. His father wanted him to go to church and sent him to the University of Basel to prepare for the ministry. Thus he read mathematics texts on his own and took some private lessons. However this school was known as a rather poor one, and Euler learnt no mathematics at all. His father gave him the basic knowledge of mathematics.Īt the age of 7, Euler returned to Basel and lived with his grandmother on his mother's side. ![]() Their son Leonhard Euler was born on 15 April 1707 in the town of Basel, Switzerland, but the family moved to Riehen when he was one year old. Later he became a Protestant minister and married Margaret Brucker, the daughter of another Protestant minister. He also lived in Jacob's Bernoulli's house with Johann Bernoulli. Leonhard Euler's father was pastor Paul Euler, who had studied theology at the University of Basel and had attended Jacob Bernoulli's lectures there. His numerous works (over 900 publications) in many areas had a decisive influence on the development of mathematics. Leonhard Paul Euler (15 April 1707 - 18 September 1783) was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist and widely considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. Leonhard Euler aged 49 (oil painting by Emanuel Handmann, 1756)
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