## What is a Euler? * A person * Leonhard Euler * 1707 - 1783 * A scholar * Mathemetician and physicist * [Euler's number](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(mathematical_constant) * Proofs for many prior theorems * A gentleman * Just look at his hair note: Euler's number is the base of a natural logarithm; roughly 2.71828