BIOGRAPHY OF VENN EULER

Leonhard Euler Swiss mathematician

Birth: April 15, 1707 Basel, Switzerland
Died: September 18, 1783 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Leonhard Euler (whose full name was
Leonhard Paul Euler
He was born on April 15, 1707 in Basel, Switzerland. He died on
September 18, 1783 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He lived in
Russia most of his life. He was probably one of the greatest
mathematicians in history, comparable to Gauss, Newton or
Archimedes. He was a disciple of a great mathematician such as
Jean Bernoulli, but he quickly surpassed the notable mathematical
talent of his teacher. His professional career was limited to the
Berlin and St. Petersburg Academies of Sciences, and most of his
work was published in the science annals of these institutions. He
was a protégé of Frederick the Great, at whose court he
participated in metaphysical discussions with Voltaire, from which
he usually retired enraged by his inability in Rhetoric, Metaphysics
and Physics. He lost the sight of one eye during an experiment in
optics, and in 1766 the sight of the other, as an adult. He spent
the last years of his life blind, but continued working. He dictated
many works to his eldest son. He is possibly the most prolific
mathematician in history. His publishing activity was incessant (an
average of 800 pages of articles per year in his period of greatest
production, between 1727 and 1783), most of his complete work is
unpublished. The work of compiling and publishing his works in full
began in 1911 and there is no indication that it will be completed.
The initial project planned to work on 887 titles in 72 volumes, but
currently it is assumed that it will reach 200 easily. He is
considered the human being with the greatest number of works and
articles in any field of knowledge, comparable only to Gauss. He
l i v e d in Russia and Germany for most of his life and made important discoveries in
areas as diverse as calculus and graph theory . He also introduced much of modern
mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for the area of mathematical
analysis , s u c h a s t h e n o t i o n o f a mathematical function.

He is also known for his work in the fields of mechanics , optics and astronomy .
Euler has been one of the most prolific mathematicians, and it is estimated that his
complete works collected together could occupy between 60 and 80 volumes.
A statement attributed to Pierre Simon Laplace expresses Euler's influence on later
mathematicians: "Read Euler, read Euler, he is the teacher of us all." In
commemoration of him, Euler has appeared on the sixth series of the 10 Swiss franc
banknotes, as well as on numerous Swiss, German and Russian postal stamps . The
asteroid (2002) Euler was named in his honor.

John Venn
(Drypool, 1834-Cambridge, 1923) British mathematician and logician. He stood out
for his research in inductive logic. He is especially known for his method of
graphically representing propositions (according to their quality and quantity) and
syllogisms. Venn diagrams also allow verification of the truth or falsity of a syllogism.
Later they were used to visually show the most elementary operations of set theory.
His works include Symbolic Logic (1881) and The Principles of Empirical or Inductive
Logic (1889).

FABLE IN VERSE
XXV - The Hungry Arab

by Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch

Lost in a desert
an unhappy Arab, already half dead
of thirst, hunger and fatigue,
a bladder wrapper was found.
He picked it up, he was surprised by the sound,
and said with trembling pleasure:
Oysters they must be. -But when you pour them,
-Oh! (He exclaimed) they are pearls.

On certain occasions
The rich man's millions are not worth it.

FABLE IN PROSE: The viper and the fox

by Godfrey Daireaux

In the middle of a sheepfold in lambing, the viper was looking for a way to hang on to
the teat of some sheep to fill up on milk, giving the lamb to suck, as it usually does,
the tip of its tail to deceive it, when it heard the bleating of a lamb that he had just
woken up; and after a while, the mother's voice answered him.
He didn't see the sheep; It would be behind a tuft of straw that was there, and the
viper crept slowly to look and ran into the fox, who, wonderfully imitating the bleating
of the lambing sheep, tried to be followed by the lamb to some cave in where this one
would not come out anymore.
Seeing the astonished face of the viper, the fox laughed: "What do you think of the
little sheep, friend?..."
"Hey! What do you want? Everyone makes it as best they can.
A few days later, the fox, on an empty stomach, heard the song of a bird in the
bushes: "it's better, he thought, that it's better than nothing" and he went slowly to
where he heard the song. And he ran into the viper, who, wonderfully imitating the
whistle of the little birds, tried to show them the way down his throat.
Seeing the fox's astonished face, the viper burst out laughing: «What do you think of
the calandria, buddy?... Hey! What does he want? "Everyone makes up for it as best
they can."
-What does so-and-so live on? -Of traps. -And you? -Also.
MORAL
Even the rogue has to live in this world.