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Famous Mathematicians and Their Legacy - Leonard Euler
KOŠÁKOVÁ, Stanislava
The goal of my bachelor's thesis is to introduce the general public, but above all pupils, students, teachers and parents, to one great representative from the ranks of mathematicians who influenced our world. People often think that all knowledge and understanding of mathematics we have from the period of Greek and Roman history or from mathematicians from the Arabian Peninsula. However, this is not true, the great development of mathematics occurred mainly from the 18th century, when mathematics began to dominate the sciences. Many mathematicians have disappeared into the history of time, others will stand on top of the winners in the distant future, because their ideas are still alive and we are constantly working with them and using them. I chose a mathematician who spent his whole life dealing with numbers, calculations and equations. His range of interests was wide and so rich that it is impossible to include even half of his activities in one work. His name is not very well known among people, but we all know his discoveries, established symbols or established mathematical theorems and do not think about who created or invented them. I am talking about the Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer Leonard Euler. In the first part of the work, his detailed biography is drawn up, which introduces us to Euler as a person who also had ordinary concerns. In the next part of my bachelor's thesis, I focused on one of the many areas of mathematics that this mathematician was interested in, namely geometry.
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