Swiss Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Geographer, Logician, and Engineer. The son of a Reformed Church minister, he is remembered for his important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, such as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory, while also making pioneering contributions to several branches such as topology and analytic number theory. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion of a mathematical function. He is also known for his work in mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, astronomy and music theory. He was one of the most eminent mathematicians of the 18th century and is held to be one of the greatest in history and also widely considered to be the most prolific mathematician of all time. His collected works fill 92 volumes, more than anyone else in the field. He spent most of his adult life in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and in Berlin, then the capital of Prussia. In his later years, his eyesight began to fail and he nearly went totally blind following a failed cataract surgery in his left eye. He died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 76. Originally interred at the Smolenskoe Lutheran Cemetery in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1956, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of his birth, he was reinterred at the Lazarevskoe (Lazarus) Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery complex.
Swiss Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Geographer, Logician, and Engineer. The son of a Reformed Church minister, he is remembered for his important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, such as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory, while also making pioneering contributions to several branches such as topology and analytic number theory. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion of a mathematical function. He is also known for his work in mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, astronomy and music theory. He was one of the most eminent mathematicians of the 18th century and is held to be one of the greatest in history and also widely considered to be the most prolific mathematician of all time. His collected works fill 92 volumes, more than anyone else in the field. He spent most of his adult life in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and in Berlin, then the capital of Prussia. In his later years, his eyesight began to fail and he nearly went totally blind following a failed cataract surgery in his left eye. He died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 76. Originally interred at the Smolenskoe Lutheran Cemetery in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1956, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of his birth, he was reinterred at the Lazarevskoe (Lazarus) Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery complex.
Bio by: William Bjornstad
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