This year is the 300th birthday of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), one of history's greatest mathematicians. The remarkable quality of his achievements is matched only by the equally remarkable quantity of his achievements — Euler's collected works contain over 25,000 pages of pure and applied mathematics!

We will sketch Euler's life, mention a few of his contributions, and then examine a pair of Eulerian results: evaluating a particularly difficult integral and establishing what is now known as “Euler's identity.” Such clever arguments should give a sense of this towering mathematical genius

NOTE: This talk should be accessible to any student of calculus or beyond.