Abstract
In a recent article by Harold M. Edwards, we are exhorted to read the masters! [2]. While we can all agree that in general this is good advice, we may still be reluctant to go to Newton's Principia in search of a lucid treatment of the calculus or to Gauss' Disquisitiones Arithmeticae for an account of some famous theorems of number theory and how they came to be proved. One need have no such reluctance, however, about reading Euler. Among the masters he stands out for the clarity of his writing, his willingness to show how he came to his discoveries, and his open admission of failure to prove a conjecture for which he had convincing evidence. George P6lya sums it up when he writes (italics ours):
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