Ocupation: Mathematician
Life: April 15, 1707 - September 18, 1783
Birthday: April 15
Death: September 18
... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could; if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand ...
topic: Education, Book, Reading, Sunday Afternoons, Euler, Reading More