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Euler is considered to be the preeminent mathematician of the 18th century and one of the greatest of all time. He is also one of the most prolific; h ...name="childhood">{{cite book |last= James |first= Ioan |title= Remarkable Mathematicians: From Euler to von Neumann |publisher= Cambridge |year= 2002|pages=2 |isbn= ...

Nonetheless, in the mid-18th century, [[Leonhard Euler]] wrote what he admitted to be a [[List of paradoxes#Math The "H" stands for [[Otto Hölder]], who first proved in 1882 what mathematicians now think of as the connection between [[Divergent series#Abelian means|Abe ...

...[[Equality (mathematics)|equality]] has long been accepted by professional mathematicians and taught in textbooks. [[mathematical proof|Proofs]] have been formulated ...system. The same phenomenon occurs in all [[integer]] [[radix|base]]s, and mathematicians have also quantified the ways of writing 1 in [[Non-integer representation| ...

...ang|el-Latn|Epaphaí}}'', "Tangencies"); this work has been lost, but a 4th-century report of his results by [[Pappus of Alexandria]] has survived. Three given In the 16th century, [[Adriaan van Roomen]] solved the problem using intersecting [[hyperbola]] ...