“Objects in mathematics are named after the first person after Euler to discover them.” — Oft-Repeated Quip Copy Share Image
Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air. — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e. — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths… — George Polya Copy Share Image
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Carl Friedrich Gauss, often rated the greatest mathematician of all time, played the market. On a salary of 1,000 thalers a year,… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Too much knowledge could be a bad thing. I was lead to the Szemerédi theorem by proving a result, about squares, that… — Endre Szemeredi Copy Share Image
There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
“Durante la invasión rusa en 1760, la casa de campo de Euler fue saqueada. El general ruso declaró que "no hacía la… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth;… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
“In my view, Euler's tranquil temperament, fairness, and generosity were integral to his greatness as a mathematician and scientist- he was never… — David Stipp Copy Share Image
“Along with working on the Basel problem, Euler realized that adding an infinite sequence of reciprocal powers for all whole numbers will… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
“The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
“I have been able to solve a few problems of mathematical physics on which the greatest mathematicians since Euler have struggled in… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave… — Adrien-Marie Legendre Copy Share Image
Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
“That this blind and aging man forged ahead with such gusto is a remarkable lesson, a tale for the ages. Euler's courage,… — William Dunham Copy Share Image
In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
