Mathematician

Leonhard Euler

Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer

1707 - 1783

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His biography is available in 161 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 156 in 2024). Leonhard Euler is the 9th most popular mathematician (down from 7th in 2024), the 2nd most popular biography from Switzerland and the most popular Swiss Mathematician.

Leonhard Euler is most famous for his work in mathematics. He contributed to the fields of geometry, trigonometry, infinitesimal calculus, and graph theory.

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Leonhard Euler ranks #2 among 1,198 people in Pantheon born in Switzerland, inside the top 1% of that group.

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Leonhard Euler's biography appears in 161 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 99% of all Mathematicians.

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About 243 years after death, Leonhard Euler still holds rank #220 among all individuals in Pantheon.

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Among Mathematicians

Among mathematicians, Leonhard Euler ranks 9 out of 1,010. Before him are Carl Friedrich Gauss, Blaise Pascal, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Euclid, Fibonacci, and Ada Lovelace. After him are Omar Khayyam, John Forbes Nash Jr., Bernhard Riemann, Hypatia, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, and Al-Biruni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1707, Leonhard Euler ranks 2. Before him is Carl Linnaeus. After him are Carlo Goldoni, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Henry Fielding, Louis I of Spain, Frederick, Prince of Wales, Louis-Michel van Loo, Louis, Duke of Brittany, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Moshe Chaim Luzzatto. Among people deceased in 1783, Leonhard Euler ranks 1. After him are Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Capability Brown, Johann Adolph Hasse, Étienne Bézout, Yosa Buson, Antonio Soler, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Grigory Orlov, Johann Kirnberger, and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Leonhard Euler ranks 2 out of 1,198. Before him is Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712). After him are Le Corbusier (1887), Carl Jung (1875), Paracelsus (1493), Henry Dunant (1828), Jean Piaget (1896), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Jacob Bernoulli (1654), Huldrych Zwingli (1484), Sepp Blatter (1936), and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746).

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Among Mathematicians In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Leonhard Euler ranks 1. After him are Jacob Bernoulli (1654), Johann Bernoulli (1667), Gabriel Cramer (1704), Jost Bürgi (1552), Jakob Steiner (1796), Paul Guldin (1577), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750), and Johann II Bernoulli (1710).

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