“To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero.”

— Leonhard Euler

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About Leonhard Euler

Mathematician • Swiss

Leonhard Euler was a pioneering Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician, and engineer. He made seminal and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, such as infinitesimal calculus...

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