AMS Euler is a upright cursivetypeface, commissions by the American Mathematical Society and designed and created by Hermann Zapf with the assistance of Donald Knuth. It has been trying to emulate a mathematician's style of handwriting mathematical entities on a blackboard, which is upright rather than italic.
First implemented in METAFONT, AMS Euler was first used in the book Concrete Mathematics, co-authored by Knuth, which was dedicated to Euler. The typeface is now also available in other formats, including PostScript Type 1 and TrueType.
External links
User's Guide to AMSFonts (http://www.ctan.org/tex_archive/fonts/amsfonts/doc/amsfndoc.ps), which includes a section on the history of AMS Euler fonts.
Euler was born in Basel and lived and worked for many years in St. Petersburg, and those two cities are the sites of major conferences marking the anniversary of his birth.
The International Euler Symposium was held in Basel on May 30 and June 1, 2007, just one event in a larger, months-long celebration in that city.
On the Euler equations of incompressible fluids, by Peter Constantin
Leonhard Euler was born on April the 15th 1707 as the son of a Protestant minister in Basel (Switzerland).
Euler was the first to publish a systematic introduction to mechanics in 1736: “Mechanica sive motus scientia analytice exposita” (Mechanics or motion explained with analytical science (that is, calculus)).
However it is said that Euler published some other (not really serious) proofs of the existence of God, which may well be, since at that time people were wondering about the possibility to give an algebraic proof of the existence of God.
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