Leonhard Euler lived through 1707-1783 and was born on April 15, 1707 and was educated in Basel, Switzerland. He had married twice and had 13 children but only 5 lived, the rest died at a young age. He was arguably the greatest mathematician of the 18 century. Euler had made the Euler theorem or the Euler formula but, those can mean many things because he made so many important contributions. One of them was that any polyhedron that doesn't intersect itself the number of faces plus the number of vertices minus the number of edges Will always equal 2. June ofHe spent most of his career in St. Petersburg and Berlin. In 1727 he joined the St. Petersburg academy of science.
Euler was a great mathematician and scientist. He could recite word-for-word the entire Aeneid, which is a twelve book series of poems with about 300 words on each page. Leonhard was very good with dealing with distractions. He did lots of his work while his children were playing at his feet.
I'm sure Leonhard was a great person, but what I know is... he changed the world.
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Ethan, what is the Euler formula/theorem? Also don't forget you need 3 credible sources to write a blog. I only see 1 so far.
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