About+Euler

Euler was born on April 15th 1707 in Basel, Switzerland. His dad was Paul Euler, a pastor and his mum was Marguerite Brucker. He had two younger sisters named Anna Maria and Maria Magdalena. Soon after the birth of Leonhard, the Eulers moved from Basel to the town of St. Petersburg, where Euler spent most of his childhood. He joined the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1727. He spent most of his career in St. Petersburg and Berlin. Euler married twice and had 13 children, however all but five of them died young.

In 1736, Euler solved the problem known as the Seven Bridges of Königsberg. //Explained in more detail in the page The Graph Theory//

In 1741 Euler went to Berlin as he was invited there by Frederick the Great, but he and Frederick never got on well and in 1766 he returned to St. Petersburg, where he remained until his death. He died in St. Petersburg on September 7th 1783.