Leonhard Euler (pronounced oiler) was the most prolific mathematician of all time. He wrote more than 500 books and papers during his lifetime (about 800 pages per year) with an incredible 400 further publications appearing posthumously. His collected works and correspondence are still not completely published: they already fill over 70 large volumes, comprising tens of thousands of pages.
The number e is a famous irrational number, and is one of the most important numbers in mathematics.
The first few digits are:
2.7182818284590452353602874713527...
this is often called Euler's number after Leonhard Euler
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