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| Preliminary remarks | xi | |
| Prologue | xiii | |
| 1 | Basel 1707-1727 | 1 |
| Leonhard Euler's autobiography | 1 | |
| Euler's genealogy | 7 | |
| The parents | 9 | |
| Childhood and youth | 11 | |
| The time in Basel until 1727 | 14 | |
| 2 | The first Petersburg period 1727-1741 | 23 |
| The establishment of the Academy of Petersburg | 23 | |
| Euler's call - Journey to Russia | 27 | |
| The first scholars at the Academy of Petersburg | 32 | |
| Euler's first years in the tsardom | 37 | |
| First principal works | 42 | |
| Farewell from Petersburg | 55 | |
| 3 | The Berlin period 1741-1766 | 59 |
| New beginning in Frederick's Prussia | 59 | |
| Euler's first activities in Berlin | 62 | |
| Other major works | 65 | |
| Chess | 77 | |
| The great Trio | 81 | |
| Optics | 94 | |
| Pater familias | 99 | |
| Break with Frederick — Goodbye Berlin | 106 | |
| 4 | The second Petersburg period 1766-1783 | 115 |
| Firmly in the saddle | 115 | |
| The "Algebra for beginners" | 120 | |
| Astronomy* | 122 | |
| G. K. Mikhailov: The discord about Leonhard Euler's second | ||
| marriage | 124 | |
| The end | 129 | |
| Epilogue | 135 | |
| Translators' Notes | 140 | |
| Notes | 141 | |
| Chronological table | 155 | |
| Bibliography | 159 | |
| 1. | Abbreviations used throughout | 159 |
| 2. | Bibliographies | 159 |
| 3. | Works | 160 |
| 4. | Edition of correspondences | 161 |
| 5. | Memorial publications and omnibus volumes (selection) | 162 |
| 6. | Biographies (without dictionary-articles) | 162 |
| 7. | Secondary literature | 163 |
| Index of names | 173 | |
| About the author | 177 | |
| Sources for the illustrations | 179 | |
