The theories of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) and Albert Einstein (1879-1955) revolutionised our understanding of the Universe. With the famous equation that bears his name, Euler gave scientists a ...

Mathematician Leonhard Euler, born in Switzerland in 1707, spent most of his career in St Petersburg. His work is of singular genius, originality and profundity.

The brilliant Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler had cut his teeth on it and failed to solve it. Now Apéry, a French mathematician who was relatively unknown and in his 60s at the time, had ...