For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

Leonhard Euler

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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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