1 / 6

My Favorite Mathematician

My Favorite Mathematician. OC Josh Zimmer. Leonhard P. Euler. Born April 15, 1707 Died Sept 18, 1783 Swiss born University of Basel Further educated at Russian and German Academy of Science. Blindness Fever Cataract He still managed to produce ~1 paper per week Photographic Memory.

chika
Download Presentation

My Favorite Mathematician

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. My Favorite Mathematician OC Josh Zimmer

  2. Leonhard P. Euler • Born April 15, 1707 • Died Sept 18, 1783 • Swiss born • University of Basel • Further educated at Russian and German Academy of Science

  3. Blindness • Fever • Cataract • He still managed to produce ~1 paper per week • Photographic Memory

  4. Work • Compounding Interest • Half-lives & Growth and Decay constants • Euler’s Identity: eίπ+ 1= 0 • Euler’s Formula: eίx=cos(x) + ί sin(x)

  5. At The End • Fire took his home and almost his life in 1773 • Lost wife of 40 years 1773 • Remarried 1776 • Died in St. Petersburg of a brain hemorrage

  6. My Swiss Miss

More Related