1. Euler - Noun
2. Euler - Proper noun
Swiss mathematician (1707-1783)
Source: WordNetIf we could be any mathematician in the history of the world (besides ourselves), who would we rather be? ...we narrowed the choice down to Euler and Pólya, and finally settled on George Pólya because of the sheer enjoyment of mathematics that he has conveyed by so many examples. George Pólya
Carl Friedrich Gauss, often rated the greatest mathematician of all time, played the market. On a salary of 1,000 thalers a year, Euler left an estate of 170,587 thalers in cash and securities. Nothing is known of Gauss's investment methods. William Poundstone
A clickable Euler diagram showing the relationships between various multinational organisations in the Americas. Source: Internet
Adoption of the symbol Leonhard Euler popularized the use of the Greek letter in works he published in 1736 and 1748. Source: Internet
After nearly two centuries, M 31 was verified to be prime by Leonhard Euler in 1772. Source: Internet
Although Euler was a pioneer in the theory of complex variables, he does not appear to have considered the factorial of a complex number, as instead Gauss first did. Source: Internet