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Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.

Madam, I have just come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

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Leonhard Euler

Mathematician

Born: 1707-04-15

Died: 1783-09-18

Leonhard Euler (15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician, and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in many other branches of mathematics such as analytic number theory, complex analysis, and infinitesimal calculus. He introduced much of modern mathematical terminology and notation, including the notion of a mathematical function. He is also known for his work in mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, astronomy, and music theory. He is considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.More