Leonard Euler was born in Basel in 1007 to a minister (Paul Euler), who had studied mathematics under Jakob Bernoulli. Paul Euler intended that his son for the ministery, however, Leonard Euler showed a talent for mathematics (he was tutored by Johan Bernoulli --- Jakob's brother) and consequently his father changed his mind and in 1720 he entered the University of Basel from where he graduated two years later. From then, to the end of his life in 1783, his mathematical creativity new know bounds (2)
Leonard Euler (1)