Mathematicians celebrate the 300th birthday of the great Swiss mathematician and scientist Leonhard Euler (1707-1783). To mark the occasion, the Consulate General of Switzerland in Atlanta leads celebrations of the world's most prolific mathematician: the intellectual ancestor of Sudoku; the man who studied how water flows; whose work was key in the construction of faster ships and who designed the most efficient pumps; who designed the perfect shape for the teeth of a gear; who developed the equations needed to make accurate enough lunar tables to determine longitude at sea; and who, according to legend, "calculated without apparent effort, as men breathe, or as eagles sustain themselves on the wing."
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