1707 - 1783
Leonhard Euler ( OY-lər, German: [ˈleːɔnhaʁt ˈʔɔʏlɐ] , Swiss Standard German: [ˈleːɔnhart ˈɔʏlər]; 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.Euler is held to be one of the greatest mathematicians in history and the greatest of the 18th century. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonhard Euler has received more than 5,710,603 page views. His biography is available in 152 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 145 in 2019). Leonhard Euler is the 6th most popular mathematician (down from 5th in 2019), 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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Among mathematicians, Leonhard Euler ranks 6 out of 823. Before him are Archimedes, Blaise Pascal, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. After him are Omar Khayyam, Euclid, Hypatia, Bertrand Russell, Al-Biruni, and Bernhard Riemann.
287 BC - 212 BC
HPI: 91.69
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1623 - 1662
HPI: 88.71
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1777 - 1855
HPI: 87.89
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1646 - 1716
HPI: 85.38
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780 - 850
HPI: 85.05
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1707 - 1783
HPI: 84.57
Rank: 6
1048 - 1131
HPI: 83.59
Rank: 7
350 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 83.48
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350 - 415
HPI: 81.91
Rank: 9
1872 - 1970
HPI: 79.79
Rank: 10
973 - 1048
HPI: 79.68
Rank: 11
1826 - 1866
HPI: 79.62
Rank: 12
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, Louis I of Spain, Frederick, Prince of Wales, Henry Fielding, Louis, Duke of Brittany, Louis-Michel van Loo, Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Michel Corrette, and Charles Wesley. Among people deceased in 1783, Leonhard Euler ranks 1. After him are Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Grigory Orlov, Johann Adolph Hasse, Étienne Bézout, Antonio Soler, Yosa Buson, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Benedict Joseph Labre, Nikita Ivanovich Panin, and Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt.
1707 - 1778
HPI: 87.29
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1707 - 1783
HPI: 84.57
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1707 - 1793
HPI: 70.60
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1707 - 1788
HPI: 70.33
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1707 - 1724
HPI: 70.31
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1707 - 1751
HPI: 63.27
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1707 - 1754
HPI: 61.23
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1707 - 1712
HPI: 59.07
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1707 - 1771
HPI: 56.32
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1707 - 1746
HPI: 54.89
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1707 - 1795
HPI: 52.89
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1707 - 1788
HPI: 52.19
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1707 - 1783
HPI: 84.57
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1717 - 1783
HPI: 75.67
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1734 - 1783
HPI: 63.92
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1699 - 1783
HPI: 62.38
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1730 - 1783
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1729 - 1783
HPI: 59.95
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1716 - 1783
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1741 - 1783
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1736 - 1783
HPI: 57.49
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1748 - 1783
HPI: 56.13
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1718 - 1783
HPI: 56.10
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1723 - 1783
HPI: 55.11
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Among people born in Switzerland, Leonhard Euler ranks 2 out of 876. Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712). After him are Le Corbusier (1887), Paracelsus (1493), Carl Jung (1875), Jean Piaget (1896), Henry Dunant (1828), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), Jean-Paul Marat (1743), Sepp Blatter (1936), and Paul Klee (1879).
1712 - 1778
HPI: 89.83
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1707 - 1783
HPI: 84.57
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1887 - 1965
HPI: 82.89
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1493 - 1541
HPI: 81.43
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1875 - 1961
HPI: 81.22
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1896 - 1980
HPI: 80.95
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1828 - 1910
HPI: 80.37
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1857 - 1913
HPI: 78.58
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1746 - 1827
HPI: 76.85
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1743 - 1793
HPI: 76.23
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1936 - Present
HPI: 76.14
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1879 - 1940
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 12
Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Leonhard Euler ranks 1. After him are Johann Bernoulli (1667), Jacob Bernoulli (1654), Gabriel Cramer (1704), Jakob Steiner (1796), Jost Bürgi (1552), 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).
1707 - 1783
HPI: 84.57
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1667 - 1748
HPI: 71.44
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1654 - 1705
HPI: 67.90
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1704 - 1752
HPI: 64.79
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1796 - 1863
HPI: 61.38
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1552 - 1632
HPI: 60.75
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1577 - 1643
HPI: 59.63
Rank: 7
1695 - 1726
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 8
1768 - 1822
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 9
1803 - 1855
HPI: 54.78
Rank: 10
1750 - 1840
HPI: 52.59
Rank: 11
1710 - 1790
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 12