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Nicolas Fuss (29 January 1755 – 4 January 1826), also known as Nikolai Fuss, was a Swiss mathematician, living most of his life in the Russian Empire.
Nikolai Fuss was a Swiss mathematician whose most important contribution was as amanuensis to Euler after he lost his sight. View one larger picture. Biography. Nikolai Fuss was born into a Swiss family who had a sufficient income to live reasonably but were certainly not particularly well off.
Eulogy of Leonhard Euler by Nicolas Fuss. Nicholas Fuss was an amenuensis to Euler for 10 years and and married one of Euler's granddaughters after his death: Johann Albrecht Euler's daughter Albertine. This eulogy was read at the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Saint Petersburg on 23 October 1783. To understand the life of a great man, who has ...
Nicolas Fuss (30 January 1755 – 4 January 1826), also known as Nikolai Fuss, was a Swiss mathematician. Fuss was born in Basel, Switzerland. He moved to Saint Petersburg to serve as a mathematical assistant to Leonhard Euler from 1773–1783, and remained there until his death.
It contained much of the correspondence between Leonhard Euler, Christian Goldbach, Nicolas Fuss, and several members of the Bernoulli family (Johann I, Nicolas, and Daniel). More than 150 years later, Fuss' book continues to be one of the best sources for this correspondence.
The Life of Euler. The first comprehensive biography of Euler in English is Ronald Calinger's Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment, available from Princeton University Press. For a list of other biographical resources, see our resources page.
Nicolas Fuss (1755–1826) Nicolas Fuss (Nikolai Ivanovich Fuss in Russian) came to St. Petersburg in 1772 on the recommendation of Daniel Bernoulli, after Euler, whose vision was failing, had asked for an assistant. Fuss became not only Euler’s secretary and editor but in many ways, a coauthor who developed his ideas. Fuss subsequently authored
