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Born April 15, 1707 • Basel • Switzerland
Died September 18, 1783 (aged 76) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Subjects Of Study Moon • calculus • quadratic reciprocity law • space motion • three-body problem

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Engraved portrait of Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler in profile, wearing a dark coat and ruffled white shirt, from the 1740s.
A diagram illustrating Euler's formula on the complex plane, showing a unit circle with axes labeled real and imaginary. A red angle theta extends from the origin to a point on the circle, labeled as e^(i?) = cos ? + i sin ?, with the horizontal and vertical components labeled cos ? and sin ?.
A diagram of the historic Seven Bridges of Konigsberg, showing seven numbered bridges crossing over a river with multiple land masses, representing the classic mathematical problem.
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