Leonhard Euler, Volume 5

Life, Work and Legacy

By: Robert E. Bradley (Editor), Ed Sandifer (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 March 2007 | Edition Number 5

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The year 2007 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the Enlightenment's most important mathematicians and scientists, Leonhard Euler. This volume is a collection of 24 essays by some of the world's best Eulerian scholars from seven different countries about Euler, his life and his work.

Some of the essays are historical, including much previously unknown information about Euler's life, his activities in the St. Petersburg Academy, the influence of the Russian Princess Dashkova, and Euler's philosophy. Others describe his influence on the subsequent growth of European mathematics and physics in the 19th century. Still others give technical details of Euler's innovations in probability, number theory, geometry, analysis, astronomy, mechanics and other fields of mathematics and science.

- Over 20 essays by some of the best historians of mathematics and science, including Ronald Calinger, Peter Hoffmann, Curtis Wilson, Kim Plofker, Victor Katz, Ruediger Thiele, David Richeson, Robin Wilson, Ivor Grattan-Guinness and Karin Reich
- New details of Euler's life in two essays, one by Ronald Calinger and one he co-authored with Elena Polyakhova
- New information on Euler's work in differential geometry, series, mechanics, and other important topics including his influence in the early 19th century

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Foreword	p. V
Introduction	p. 1
Leonhard Euler: Life and Thought	p. 5
Leonhard Euler and Russia	p. 61
Princess Dashkova, Euler, and the Russian Academy of Sciences	p. 75
Leonhard Euler and Philosophy	p. 97
Images of Euler	p. 109
Euler and Applications of Analytical Mathematics to Astronomy	p. 121
Euler and Indian Astronomy	p. 147
Euler and Kinematics	p. 167
Euler on Rigid Bodies	p. 195
Euler's Analysis Textbooks	p. 213
Euler and the Calculus of Variations	p. 235
Euler, D'Alembert and the Logarithm Function	p. 255
Some Facets of Euler's Work on Series	p. 279
The Geometry of Leonhard Euler	p. 303
Cyclotomy: From Euler through Vandermonde to Gauss	p. 323
Euler and Number Theory: A Study in Mathematical Invention	p. 363
Euler and Lotteries	p. 385
Euler's Science of Combinations	p. 395
The Truth about Konigsberg	p. 409
The Polyhedral Formula	p. 421
On the Recognition of Euler among the French, 1790 - 1830	p. 441
Euler's Influence on the Birth of Vector Mechanics	p. 459
Euler's Contribution to Differential Geometry and its Reception	p. 479
Euler's Mechanics as a Foundation of Quantum Mechanics	p. 503
Index	p. 527
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