Shortly after his

birth, his family

moved from Basel to After a comparative
1707 the nearby town of dissertation of the
He was born in Riehen, where Euler 1723 philosophies of René
Switzerland on April spent his childhood. He received the title Descartes and Isaac
15, 1707 of teacher of Newton. Back then,
philosophy Euler took private
lessons every
Saturday afternoon
with Johann
Euler's formal Bernoulli.
education began in
1720 the city of Basel, Euler finished his
At the age of 13 he where he was sent PhD with a thesis on
enrolled at the to live with his the propagation of
University of Basel maternal 1726 sound under the title
grandmother. De Sono

It was the forerunner of the use of

the letter E to denote the base of the
Neperian logarithms. In a writing
about certain experiments related to 1727
cannon fire, written by Euler about He won second place in the
1727, he already used the letter e in French Academy science
this sense on several occasions. The contest that year.
idea that represents this number was
known more or less a century ago,
In order to solve series problems, he
but until now it had not been
defined the gamma function with s> 0
represented with a specific symbol.
1729 and demonstrated some of its
properties Γ (s + 1) = s · Γ (s); Γ (n + 1) =
Jan 1, 1729
Discovery n! ∀n∈N. It is a function that extends
the concept of factorial to complex
One of Euler's most important numbers, it appears in several
contributions in mathematical probability distribution functions, so it
notation was the use of f (x) as a way is widely used in both probability and
to denote the value of a function f 1734 statistics and in combinatorics
when applying it to a value x. This Function f (x)
new form of notation offered more
Euler implements
comfort compared to the
the symbol Σ for the
rudimentary methods of infinitesimal
summation. Since
calculation existing to date. 1755 then, Sigma
Euler incorporates i for the square root Input represents the
of –1. He had used the symbol i to summation of a
denote what we could denote an finite or infinite
infinite number, in a manuscript dated series of elements.
1777, it was not published until after
his death but the adoption of the He died in Saint Petersburg, Russia,
symbol i by Gauss in his Disquisitiones suddenly, while smoking and drinking
Arithmeticae of 1801 ended by give this 1777 tea with his family after suffering a
notation the place it currently occupies. Discovery 1783 stroke, and was buried along with his
Death wife in the Lutheran Cemetery located
on Vasilievsky Island.