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Leonhard Euler

Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)

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Feb 3, 2026

Who did the math to get to the moon

that sent astronauts to the Moon was not the work of a single genius but a layered effort: mission trajectories and rendezvous math produced by teams and celebrated human “computers” like , algorithmi...

Jan 20, 2026

Solutions to famous mathematical questions with equations

A brief tour of celebrated equations shows how some mathematical questions are neatly solved by compact formulas — for example, the Pythagorean relation a^2 + b^2 = c^2 and Einstein’s E = mc^2 — while...