New Delhi: An animated doodle of geometric shapes and mathematical calculations on a paper strip adorns the Google home page to commemorate Leonhard Euler's 306th birth anniversary.
The Swiss mathematician and physicist was born on born April 15, 1707 in Basel, Switzerland and is one of the founders of pure mathematics.
Leonhard Euler's major contributions were in the fields of geometry, calculus, mechanics and number theory. His works also extended to observational astronomy.
In 1727, Leonhard Euler, moved to Russia. He lost sight in one eye in 1735 and in 1741, at the invitation of Frederick the Great he went to Berlin, Germany only to return to Russia in 1766....
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11:03 PM, Apr 03, 2013
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London: Physicist Stephen Hawking has signed up to make a cameo appearance in US sitcom 'The Big Bang Theory', reports contactmusic.com. "When people would ask us who a 'dream guest star' for the show would be, we would always joke and say Stephen Hawking - knowing that it was a long shot of astronomical proportions. "In fact, we're not exactly sure how we got him. It's the kind of mystery...
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Cambridge: British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left one mystery unsolved: How he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease. The physicist and cosmologist was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease when he was a 21-year-old student at Cambridge University. Most people die within a few years of the diagnosis, called motor neuron disease in...
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