Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) was not only one of the greatest mathematicians, he was probably also the most prolific and most influential mathematician in history. In this talk I will give a biographical sketch, and will try to put the various stages of Euler's life and career into a historical and academic perspective. I will say very little about Euler's mathematics.
Speaker Biography: Karl Dilcher did his graduate studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where he finished his Ph.D. in 1983. He is currently a professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He first arrived there in 1984 as a postdoctoral fellow, co-supervised by the late Jon Borwein. It was this connection which brought him for visits to the University of Newcastle in 2013 and 2015, where he also participated in CARMA events. His research interests include classical analysis, special functions, and elementary and combinatorial number theory.