In mathematical analysis, Euler's identity, named after Leonhard Euler, is the equation
e^{i \pi} + 1 = 0, \,\!
Nerds would agree Euler was good in everything. Everything he did. Here's a random look. He could recite the Aeneid by Virgil. Entire Aeneid. It's like saying that you could recite the entire Bhagvad Gita. Dots, commas, full stops included. He went to University at the age of 13. Finished his PhD by 19. Closest genius I have met is violinist Robert Gupta, who I think was in Juilliard Music School in New York City when he was I think 10 or 11. You generally get into Juilliard by the time you are 18. Then President Bill Cinton apparently pulled out a Stradivarius for Gupta from the Smithsonian. Write now Gupta, I think is doing his Phd. Coming back to Euler. Euler wrote more than 800 papers and books on pure and applied mathematics. Twenty papers is considered a good lifetime output for modern mathematicians. (The American University system, I think, consulted Euler on the "publish or perish" line.) Euler knew German, Latin, French, German, Russian, English, Greek, Hebrew. He married twice and fathered 13 children.
He played the clavier and composed a small corpus of music based on mathematical equations. (A concert of it will be presented in St. Petersburg in May as part of an Euler festival.) On an interesting note here, please remember, Albert Einstein's knowledge of music history, and the depth of his familiarity with Mozart's music was unparallel. Back to Euler. He was a masterful chess player. In his early 30s, Euler lost most of the sight in his right eye. After this, he started writing on a huge slate on a round table, dictating his papers to a secretary. The day he died his slate reportedly contained a calculation of the height to which a hot-air balloon could rise. News of the first balloon ascent, in Paris the previous June, had recently arrived.
Probably at the end everything gets captured in what Laplace said: "Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of all of us"
(almost all information : thanks to Pathik Guha's brilliant article on Euler: Man Who Breathes Mathematics and David Brown's The Countless Achievment's of a Math master) About the AuthorArijit Sen Arijit Sen reports from Northeast India. He was at NDTV before joining CNN-IBN in 2005. Arijit began journalism in December 1999 with The Edit page of...Read Morefirst published:April 13, 2007, 14:16 ISTlast updated:April 13, 2007, 14:16 IST
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If you are a nerd, you probably know why, this year, it's cool to celebrate April 15 in Basel town of Switzerland. Not that if you are not a nerd, you do not celebrate the birth of mathematician Leonhard Euler in Switzerland, 300 years ago. Euler according to some is the Mozart of mathematics. Another group might just think he's the Elvis. So what did Euler do? It's the dumbest question to ask. It's almost like asking so what did Elvis do/or say Mozart did or say what did Einstein do or what does Naomi Campbell do? Opinion polls across the world on Physics' greatest equation ranks Einstein's e=mc2 to be the number 1 on the charts. Always. In Mathematics, it's Euler's beautiful equation, which is always either number 1 or number 2. Please google his equation. According to some his equation reaches down to the very depth of our existence.
In mathematical analysis, Euler's identity, named after Leonhard Euler, is the equation
e^{i \pi} + 1 = 0, \,\!
Nerds would agree Euler was good in everything. Everything he did. Here's a random look. He could recite the Aeneid by Virgil. Entire Aeneid. It's like saying that you could recite the entire Bhagvad Gita. Dots, commas, full stops included. He went to University at the age of 13. Finished his PhD by 19. Closest genius I have met is violinist Robert Gupta, who I think was in Juilliard Music School in New York City when he was I think 10 or 11. You generally get into Juilliard by the time you are 18. Then President Bill Cinton apparently pulled out a Stradivarius for Gupta from the Smithsonian. Write now Gupta, I think is doing his Phd. Coming back to Euler. Euler wrote more than 800 papers and books on pure and applied mathematics. Twenty papers is considered a good lifetime output for modern mathematicians. (The American University system, I think, consulted Euler on the "publish or perish" line.) Euler knew German, Latin, French, German, Russian, English, Greek, Hebrew. He married twice and fathered 13 children.
He played the clavier and composed a small corpus of music based on mathematical equations. (A concert of it will be presented in St. Petersburg in May as part of an Euler festival.) On an interesting note here, please remember, Albert Einstein's knowledge of music history, and the depth of his familiarity with Mozart's music was unparallel. Back to Euler. He was a masterful chess player. In his early 30s, Euler lost most of the sight in his right eye. After this, he started writing on a huge slate on a round table, dictating his papers to a secretary. The day he died his slate reportedly contained a calculation of the height to which a hot-air balloon could rise. News of the first balloon ascent, in Paris the previous June, had recently arrived.
Probably at the end everything gets captured in what Laplace said: "Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of all of us"
(almost all information : thanks to Pathik Guha's brilliant article on Euler: Man Who Breathes Mathematics and David Brown's The Countless Achievment's of a Math master)
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