how important is he, /sci/?

from what i gather, modern math is entirely based on his papers, which he wrote 300 years ago. we STILL fully teach his definitions without modification as a starting point for college students.

I want to have his brain for just one day

>>8476840
what would you do with it? calculate the shadow your fat rolls cast using the ratio of vanishing quantities?

File: 1478230390694.png (279KB, 898x790px) Image search: [Google]

279KB, 898x790px

>>8476841
heh

>>8476826
You'd have a hell of a time overstating Euler's influence on mathematics. Certainly the most important man of the millennium.

>>8476829
although this guy sure is taking a shot at it. We don't teach much of Euler verbatim because a lot of it doesn't hold up in the modern framework. Not to say it's wrong (it usually isn't) but he was working without either the set-theory or analysis foundations that we created in the 1800s and that we express literally everything in terms of nowadays.

For example, he did a lot of things where it was painfully obvious he was trying to express a limiting behaviour but didn't have the word, so he'd write something like x^0/0 instead and just roll with it.

Still I don't think you could argue anyone else had a greater influence in the history of math except perhaps Euclid.

File: 1477636237724.gif (1MB, 264x264px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 264x264px

>>8476826
>

>>8476841
I'd spend my morning thinking about the riemann hypothesis, and my afternoon thinking about P=NP. After dinner I'd write manuscripts and upload both of them to arxiv before midnight.

>>8476853
Turing > Euler