Euler and kids

This wasn't from my notes, but rather from the scratch paper I was using to write notes on. The scratch paper was from a draft of a workbook on platonic solids, a section about Euler. The workbook contained some notes in the margin, such as:

Leonard Euler . . . , an 18th century Swiss mathematician . . . loved children and often worked with a baby on his lap, and some of his other children playing around him (he had 13, though 8 of them died while still young).

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