Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)

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Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler ; He is also known for his work in mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, astronomy and music theory. Euler is held to be one of the greatest mathematicians in history and the greatest of the 18th century. A statement attributed to Pierre-Simon Laplace expresses Euler's influence on mathematics: "Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all." He spent most of his adult life in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and in Berlin, then the capital of Prussia. 