Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

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Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician born in 1707, the most prolific in history. He made foundational contributions to analysis, number theory, graph theory, mechanics, and optics, and introduced much of modern mathematical notation.
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