Euler was featured on the sixth series of the Swiss franc banknote and on numerous Swiss, German, and Russian postage stamps. The asteroid Euler was named in his honour. Biography Childhood. This reference article is mainly selected from the English Wikipedia with only minor checks and changes see www.
See also our Disclaimer. Portrait by Johann Georg Brucker. Though originally slated for a career as a rural clergyman, Euler showed an early aptitude and propensity for mathematics, and thus, after studying with Johan Bernoulli, he attended the University of Basel and earned his master's during his teens. Moving to Russia in , Euler served in the navy before joining the St.
Petersburg Academy as a professor of physics and later heading its mathematics division. He wed Katharina Gsell in early , with the couple going on to have many children, though only five lived past their father.
The couple were married for 39 years until Katharina's death, and Euler remarried in his later years to her half-sister. In , he published his first book of many, Mechanica. By the end of the decade, having suffered from fevers and overexertion due to cartography work, Euler was severely hampered in the ability to see from his right eye.
In the mids, Euler was appointed the mathematics director of the newly created Berlin Academy of Science and Beaux Arts, taking on a variety of management roles as well becoming head of the organization itself for a time starting in Petersburg Academy. By the early s, Euler had lost his sight completely after not allowing for proper recuperation after an operation. Yet, with a mind that remained highly agile, he was able to continue his scientific work and with assistance published scores of articles.
Over his career, Euler came up with an array of principles which laid the foundation for much of modern mathematics as we know it. The preparation for publication of a backlog of his work kept his assistants busy for a further four decades.
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