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What subject did Euler take interest in at an early age?
Mathematics
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At what age did Euler start his education?
7 years old
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What university did Euler first study at?
The University of Basel
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Euler was rejected when he applied for this position at the University of Basel. What was the position?
Physics professor
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Euler collaborated with Issac Newton on what equation?
F=ma
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What was Euler's father's profession?
A Calvinist preacher
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What areas, besides math, did Euler study at the University of Basel?
Astronomy, medicine, languages, and physics
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In which country was Euler invited to work, as a result of their lack of domestic scientists?
Russia
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How many years after Euler's near-fatal fever caused him to almost go blind in the right eye?
3 years later
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Euler wrote an enormously influential series of textbooks on what subject?
Calculus
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How many other siblings did Leonhard Euler have?
Six
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At what age did Euler begin his university education?
13 years old
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Where did Leonhard Euler move to in 1741, where he eventually studied the eclipse of the sun?
Berlin
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At what age did Euler go completely blind?
50 years old
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What type of mathematical problems is Euler especially remembered for?
Series Problems
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In what country was Euler born?
Switzerland
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What degree did Euler receive at the age of 16?
Master's Degree
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Where did Euler return to, later in his life, to continue his research and settle down with his family?
St. Petersburg
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What words did Isaac Newton use to describe Euler?
"Simple and Generous"
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Euler made great strides in understanding what mathematical concept?
Fermat's Theorem
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What is the name of the famous mathematician that Euler studied with at a young age?
Johann Bernoulli
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What classes did Euler take after the completion of his Master's Degree in order to respect the wishes of his father?
Theological classes
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In which country did Euler spend the most time doing research and mathematics?
Russia
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Euler lost sight in one of his eyes because of his reckless observation of _______.
The Sun
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What was Euler's most famous work?
The Opera omnia