Mathematician:Leonhard Paul Euler

1707-1783

Swiss mathematician and physicist who pioneered much of the foundation of modern mathematics.
 * Introduced much of the notation which is used today, including e and the modern notation for trigonometric functions.
 * Proved Fermat's Little Theorem.

Nationality
Swiss

History

 * Born: 15 April 1707
 * Died: 18 September 1783

Theorems and Definitions
... and the list goes on.
 * Basel Problem
 * Euler Phi Function
 * Euler's Formula
 * Euler's Identity
 * Euler's Theorem
 * Euler-Maclaurin Summation Formula

Books and Papers

 * "Elements of Algebra"
 * "Introductio in analysin infinitorum" (Introduction to Analysis of the Infinite) (1748)
 * "Institutiones calculi differentialis" (1755)
 * "Institutionum calculi integralis" (1768–1770)