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Part of the problem is he wrote so much it has taken a while to go through it all. I believe the "Opera Omnia" project to publish all his works has been going f
by seanhunter 3y ago
Part of the problem is he wrote so much it has taken a while to go through it all. I believe the "Opera Omnia" project to publish all his works has been going for over a hundred years and is just about getting to the end now. So I would expect there's a huge amount that just hasn't been fully appreciated/digested.
- jacquesm 3y agoA while indeed. Euler and Bach are similar in that sense: to properly ingest their life's output you need more than one life.
- m_mueller 3y agoHow is this humanly possible? Was Euler even an order of magnitude faster at producing new math than, say, Gauss or von Neumann?
- karmakurtisaani 3y agoIf I recall correctly, Euler has the most pages of published math. Erdős has the most papers (some of them not more than a handful of sentences).
- TuringTourist 3y agoErdős has a huge amount of credits in the papers of others (hence Erdős number) because he would just travel all over the country helping people get unstuck on their work.
- chongli 3y agoEuler had scribes do a lot of the grunt work for him. His vision was quite bad and worsened throughout his life, going blind in his right eye rather early on and later developing cataracts in his left. He once joked "Now I will have fewer distractions" on his condition.
- iaseiadit 3y agoThere’s more about the effort to publish his complete works here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Omnia_Leonhard_Euler https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Omnia_Leonhard_Euler