Leonhard Euler: mathematical genius in the Enlightenment

Introduction

The Swiss years: 1707 to April 1727

"Into the paradise of scholars": April 1727 to 1730

Departures, and Euler in love: 1730 to 1734

Reaching the "inmost heart of mathematics": 1734 to 1740

Life becomes rather dangerous: 1740 to August 1741

A call to Berlin: August 1741 to 1744

"The happiest man in the world": 1744 to 1746

The apogee years, I: 1746 to 1748

The apogee years, II: 1748 to 1750

The apogee years, III: 1750 to 1753

Increasing precision and generalization in the mathematical sciences: 1753 to 1756

War and estrangement, 1756 to July 1766

Return to Saint Petersburg: academy reform and great productivity, July 1766 to 1773

Toward "a more perfect state of dreaming": 1782 to October 1783.