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 the resources page. Also available here are two lengthy eulogies of Euler published shortly after his death. Both were published originally in French, and both have been translated by John S. D. Glaus of the Euler Society.
Published in 1783, 39 pages Eulogy to Mr. Euler, by the Marquis de Condorcet Published in 1783, 28 pages
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