The first references to e were made in 1618 in a work by John Napier - though it was not, at the time, called e. Leonhard Euler began to use the letter e for the constant in 1727, and its first use in publications came in 1736, in Euler's Mechanica.
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Leonhard Euler
Euler's numberThe mathematical constant 'e' (base of the natural logarithm) was discovered by Leonhard Euler. Which explains why the number 'e' is sometimes referred to as Euler's number (not Euler's constant, which is a completely different thing).Euler did not discover e although many believe he did. Roger Cotes discovered e.
Leonhard Paul Euler
Leonhard Euler made many contributions to math but the one thing he is most famous for is changing the base of the natural logarithim by using the letter e which is aka Euler's number