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Life, Work and Legacy
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Edited By
Robert Bradley, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, USA
Ed Sandifer, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT, USA
Included in series
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics,
Description
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.
Audience
University research libraries
Contents
Foreword (C.E. Sandifer and R.E. Bradley)
Introduction (C.E. Sandifer and R.E. Bradley)
Leonhard Euler: Life and Thought (R.S. Calinger)
Leonard Euler and Russia (P. Hoffmann)
Princess Dashkova, Euler, and the Russian Academy of Sciences (R.S. Calinger and E.N. Polyakhova)
Leonhrd Euler and Philosophy (W. Breidert)
Images of Euler (F. Fasanelli)
Euler and Applications of Analytical Mathematics to Astronomy
(C. Wilson)
Euler and Indian Astronomy (K. Plofker)
Euler and Kinematics (T. Koetsier)
Euler on Rigid Bodies (S.G. Langton)
Euler's Analysis
Textbooks (V.J. Katz)
Euler and the Calculus of Variations (R. Thiele)
Euler, D'Alembert and the Logarithm Function (R.E. Bradley)
Some
Facets of Euler's Work on Series (C.E. Sandifer)
The Geometry of Leonhard Euler (H.S. White)
Cyclotomy: From Euler through Vandermonde
to Gauss (O. Neumann)
Euler and Number Theory: A Study in Mathematical Invention (J. Suzuki)
Euler and Lotteries (D.R. Bellhouse)
Euler's
Science of Combinations (B. Hopkins and R. Wilson)
The Truth about Konigsberg (B. Hopkins and R. Wilson)
The Polyhedral Formula (D. Richeson)
On the Recognition of Euler among the French, 1790-1830 (I. Grattan-Guinness)
Euler's Influence on the Birth of Vector Mechanics (S.
Caparrini)
Euler's Contribution to Differential Geometry and its Reception (K. Reich)
Euler's Mechanics as a Foundation of Quantum Mechanics
(D. Suisky)
Index
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Hardbound, 542 pages, publication date: FEB-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-52728-8
ISBN-10: 0-444-52728-1
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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