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How is this humanly possible? Was Euler even an order of magnitude faster at producing new math than, say, Gauss or von Neumann?
by m_mueller 3y ago
How 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