Leonhard Euler Quotes

#1. Madam, I have just come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

Leonhard Euler

#2. In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.

Leonhard Euler

#3. Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.

Leonhard Euler

#4. Now I will have less distraction.

Leonhard Euler

#5. For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459 ... by the letter e.

Leonhard Euler

#6. Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.

Leonhard Euler

#7. After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.

Leonhard Euler

#8. 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

#9. Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.

Leonhard Euler

#10. A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or constant quantities.

Leonhard Euler

#11. To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.

Leonhard Euler

#12. Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

Leonhard Euler

#13. Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

Leonhard Euler