# Pronounciation Question - "Euler" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 7, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounciation-question-euler/334521 "2005-12-07T17:13:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounciation-question-euler/334521/21 "2005-12-08T04:18:16Z")
Now that we’ve got that all cleared up, can somebody verify the correct pronunciation of **John von Neumann**? ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounciation-question-euler/334521/22 "2005-12-08T04:51:03Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > Now that we’ve got that all cleared up, can somebody verify the correct pronunciation of **John von Neumann**? von “Noi-munn” – no doubt about this. ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounciation-question-euler/334521/23 "2005-12-08T08:55:58Z")
> [@nivlac](#): > > von “Noi-munn” – no doubt about this. And the “von” part pronounced with an f at the beginning, not a v. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounciation-question-euler/334521/24 "2005-12-08T13:06:13Z")
Does any Houston-area college math department have an intramural team called the “Houston Eulers”? They could play the “Sturm-Liouville Sluggers” out of Kentucky. ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounciation-question-euler/334521/25 "2005-12-08T16:53:07Z")
I heard von Neumann’s daughter give a talk about her father recently, and it sounded like she said “fon NOY-muhn”, so I assume that’s correct. I’ve heard a lot of people say “von NOY-muhn” as well. In any case, it’s definitely _not_ pronounced NEWman, as English speakers might expect it to be. This thread reminds me of the time I was taking a college algebra class from a German professor, who kept attributing theorems to “Gau[symbol]b[/symbol]”. I think I spent half the semester wondering why I’d never heard of this Gaub fellow before. :smack: (In case anyone doesn’t get it, Gau[symbol]b[/symbol] is Carl Friedrich Gauss, arguably the greatest mathematician of all time.) ---
**Author:** ![Mathochist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@Mathochist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mathochist)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounciation-question-euler/334521/26 "2005-12-08T17:58:51Z")
> [@Agent Foxtrot](#): > > I pronounced Euler _yoo-ler_ since that’s the way my father, the Yale Theoretical Chemistry Ph.D., always pronounced it… Okay, if we’re going to whip 'em out, everyone here at Yale’s _mathematics_ department would say oiler. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounciation-question-euler/334521/27 "2005-12-08T19:01:45Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Just be careful with pronunciations, because [as I’ve learned,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5248928) some people around here are just harsh. People should be harsh on those who commit rhymes like this: You can study lambda, If you find that you haveta, Though actu’lly, I find it makes me numb. I never can see, Just to what degree, This knowledge will increase my freedom. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronounciation-question-euler/334521.md?page=1)