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Leonhard Euler

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Noun1.Leonhard EulerLeonhard Euler - Swiss mathematician (1707-1783)

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Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler discovered these squares in the eighteenth century.
Mathematician Leonhard Euler famously attacked this problem in 1736, using graph theory to show that there is no route through the city of Konigsberg, Germany, that traverses each of its seven bridges just once.
In the 18th century, European mathematicians Leonhard Euler and Joseph-Louis Lagrange discovered that in this rotating frame there are five gravitational sweet spots, now called Lagrange points.
 
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