Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Portrait by Jakob Emanuel Handmann (1753)
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a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology
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Born
15 April 1707 Basel, Switzerland
Died
18 September 1783 (aged 76) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Known for
Contributions Namesakes
Fields
Mathematics and physics
Alma mater
University of Basel ( MPhil )
Institutions
Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences Berlin Academy
Spouse(s)
Katharina Gsell ( m. 1734; died 1773) Salome Abigail Gsell ( m. 1776)
adultbasic
Switzerland
Doctoral advisor
Johann Bernoulli
Doctoral students
Johann Hennert
era
1600-1800
Other notable students
Nicolas Fuss Stepan Rumovsky Joseph-Louis Lagrange (epistolary correspondent) Anders Johan Lexell
Thesis
Dissertatio physica de sono (Physical dissertation on sound) (1726)