Lack of Appreciation for a Brilliant Man

The fu(a)rther I get along in my studies of engineering, mathematics, mechanics, etc., the more I hear about this guy. Before I moved to rolla, I actually attended a mathematics forum/meeting/lecture/seminar @ UMSL given by some Harvard/Yale/other-notable-ivy-league-school mathematician devoted to the life of this man. The numbers involved in quantifying his contributions to mathematics are mind-boggling (quantifiable in many cases for comparative analysis). In any-little-thing-that-people-like of any value, as most people know.... there is always some guy/girl that is by far better than the poster boy for that field of study. Your high-school/college math or physics class gave you Sir Isaac Newton; A brilliant man with immeasurable contributions to physics and calculus (if you don't believe in Gauss (mathematics-wise)). Every math-mechanics-energy-differential-equations class that I have taken from the git-go a couple years ago, all I hear is : Euler, Euler, Leonhard fucking Euler! Not to mention he was friends with the Bernoulli family (calc 2 nightmare, thanks Jakob). If there is an alien or god-like force that wants us to know about how the world works and the quantification thereof, this was the man chosen to relay the message. Not only did he leave us with VOLUMES of mathematics and mechanics, but he left us with such quality AND quantity that (from what I heard at the aforementioned seminar), mathematicians are still trying to make sense of the volumes and volumes that he produced to this very fucking day (He died in 1783). Math and Physics fascinate me. This guy was a gift from any god if there is one.

He is funny lookin', but he's also Swiss-German, so he's gotta be brilliant ;}

Broot toot foot. (My contribution to the human race)