Leonhard Euler (Switzerland): Greatest mathematician of the time (jan 1, 1707 – jan 1, 1783)
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- studied with Johann Bernoulli
- Did most of his work in St. Peterburg and BErlin
- Developed calculus, emphasized functions in pre-calculus
- Established number theory
- Came close to proving the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
- Discovered a basic theorem about polyhedra
- More than 80 printed volumes
- First to consider the unit circle and the number e
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