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  Leonhard Euler was the most prolific
mathematician of all time – but what did he do? In
this talk I survey his life in Basel and at the Science
Academies of St Petersburg and Berlin, and outline some of
the contributions he made to the many areas in which he
worked – from the very pure (number theory, the geometry
of a circle, and combinatorics), via mechanics and the
calculus, to the very applied (astronomy and ballistics). Robin Wilson is Emeritus
Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University,
Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, a
former Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and currently
Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He
has written and edited many books on graph theory,
including 'Introduction to Graph Theory' and 'Four Colours
Suffice', and on the history of mathematics, including
'Lewis Carroll in Numberland' and is currently writing a
popular biography of Leonhard Euler. He is actively
involved with the popularization and communication of
mathematics and its history, and was awarded the
Mathematical Association of America’s Lester Ford and
Pólya prizes for ‘outstanding expository writing’. He is
currently President of the British Society for the History
of Mathematics. tirsdag
den 11. november, kl. 17
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