Wanted: Genius to fix taxes, budget; Math wizard Euler could have solved it all.(LOCAL NEWS)

From: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) | Date: April 12, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Chris Sinacola

COLUMN: SINA-CISM

Sunday marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Swiss mathematical genius Leonhard Euler, the prime architect of modern mathematics.

Euler (pronounced "Oiler") is surely not going to lead the Sunday-morning talk shows, but as I survey the puzzling mathematical questions of our day, I have concluded that someone of Euler's genius and perspicacity is sorely needed.

Euler was the first to use the functional notation f(x), essential for algebra and beyond. He settled on the use of the letter e for the natural logarithm, ...

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