数学家、力学家、天文学家和物理学家列昂哈得·欧拉,1707年4月15日生于瑞士巴塞尔,1783年9月18日在俄国圣彼得堡去世.欧拉的父亲毕业于巴塞尔大学神学系,是一个新教徒.但他爱好数学,曾听过雅可布、伯努利在大学的讲课,他对儿子进行了包括数学在内的启蒙教育.少年时代的欧拉就勤奋刻苦地钻研了鲁道夫的代数.其后,欧拉跟着业余数学家约翰学数学.他在不满十四岁时,就进入了巴塞尔大学文学系.尽管这个 Mathematician, mechanic, astronomer and physicist Leonhard Euler, born April 15, 1707 in Basel, Switzerland, and died in St. Petersburg, Russia on September 18, 1783. Euler’s father graduated from Basel University of the Department of theology, is a Protestant, but he likes mathematics, have heard of Jacob, Bernoulli lectures at the university, he gave his son, including mathematics, enlightenment education. Studied Rudolph’s algebra, and later, with amateur mathematician John Math, Euler entered the department of literature at the University of Basel at the age of fourteen.Although this