Numbers set celebrates its roots.: Math circles primed for idol's 300th birthday.(Leonhard Euler)(Brief article)

From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) | Date: January 29, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Susan Snyder

Jan. 29--Move over, Ben Franklin. Your 300th anniversary celebration has passed. It's Leonhard Euler's turn. Who? You know, Leonhard Euler (pronounced Oiler), one of the world's most prolific mathematicians and "intellectual ancestor" of Sudoku, a logic puzzle of squares that has become highly popular in recent years.

Mathematics professors and teachers worldwide are giddy over the forthcoming tercentenary of the birth of this numbers hero whose work is important in engineering, physics and astronomy; in Euler's homeland, Switzerland, they're coming ...

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