Part one of term paper
15 April 1707 - 18 September 1783 is said to have been the most prolific mathematician in history. His 866 books and articles represent about one third of the entire body of research on mathematics, theoretical physics, and engineering mechanics published between 1726 and 1800. Euler was born in Basel, Switzerland. His father, a pastor, ...

Part two of term paper
... he joined the St. Petersburg Academy of Science in 1727. By the time Leonhard was twenty years old, he suffered from severe eye problems, and was almost completely blind at an early age. But this did not stop him. In pure mathematics, he introduced Leibniz's differential calculus and Newton's method of fluxions into mathematical analysis; refined the notion of a function [f(x)]; made common many mathematical notations, including e, i, the pi symbol, and the sigma symbol; and laid the foundati ...