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Euler received his initial education from his father, Paul Euler, a village pastor of modest means who as a young man hadstudied mathematics under Jakob Bernoulli. From 1720 to 1724, L. Euler studied at the University of Basel, where heattended the mathematics lectures of Johann Bernoulli. In late 1726, Euler was offered a position at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and in May 1727 he arrived in St.Petersburg. The academy, which had just been organized, provided him with favorable conditions for scientific work, and heimmediately undertook research in mathematics and mechanics. During the 14 years of the first St. Petersburg period of hislife, he prepared approximately 80 works for publication and published more than 50. He learned

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