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by Someone 4730 days ago
I think the evidence is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler#Contributions_t...:

"While some of Euler's proofs are not acceptable by modern standards of mathematical rigour..."

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Perhaps Dijkstra would've understood that Euler was obtaining correct results while working in an era when mathematical rigor was (by modern standards) almost entirely absent. To appreciate Euler's work in context would almost certainly prevent one from considering him a poor mathematician.
Wikipedia is "evidence"? Considering we are discussing Dijkstra, this is beyond irony.