Euler at 300 : an appreciation / edited by Robert E. Bradley, Lawrence A. D'Antonio and C. Edward Sandifer.
2007
QA29.E95 S26 2007 v.5
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Title
Euler at 300 : an appreciation / edited by Robert E. Bradley, Lawrence A. D'Antonio and C. Edward Sandifer.
ISBN
9780883855652
0883855658
0883855658
Imprint
[Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, ©2007.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 298 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits, maps ; 27 cm.
Call Number
QA29.E95 S26 2007 v.5
System Control No.
(OCoLC)166372994
Summary
"Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) was the most important mathematician of the 18th century. His collected works, which number more than 800 books and articles, fill over 70 large volumes. He revolutionised real analysis and mathematical physics, single-handedly established the field of analytic number theory, and made important contributions to almost every other branch of mathematics. A great pedagogue as well as a great researcher, his textbooks educated the next generation of mathematicians. This book compiles over 20 papers, based on some of the most memorable contributions from mathematicians and historians of mathematics at academic meetings across the USA and Canada, in the years approaching Leonhard Euler's tercentenary. These papers will appeal not only to those who already have an interest in the history of mathematics, but will also serve as a compelling introduction to the subject, focused on the accomplishments of one of the greatest mathematical minds of all time"--Publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction
Leonhard Euler, the decade 1750-1760 / Rüdiger Thiele
Euler's fourteen problems / C. Edward Sandifer
The Euler archive : giving Euler to the world / Dominic Klyve and Lee Stemkoski
The Euler-Bernoulli proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra / Christopher Baltus
The quadrature of lunes, from Hippocrates to Euler / Stacy G. Langton
What is a function? / Rüdiger Thiele
Enter, stage center : the early drama of the hyperbolic functions / Janet Heine Barnett
Euler's solution of the Basel problem : the longer story / C. Edward Sandifer
Euler and elliptic integrals / Lawrence D'Antonio
Euler's observations on harmonic progressions / Mark McKinzie
Origins of a classic formalist argument : power series expansions of the logarithmic and exponential functions / Mark McKinzie
Taylor and Euler : linking the discrete and continuous / Dick Jardine
Dances between continuous and discrete : Euler's summation formula / David J. Pengelley
Some combinatorics in Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi / Stacy G. Langton
The Genoese lottery and the partition function / Robert E. Bradley
Parallels in the work of Leonhard Euler and Thomas Clausen / Carolyn Lathrop and Lee Stemkoski
Three bodies? Why not four? : the motion of the lunar apsides / Robert E. Bradley
'The fabric of the universe is most perfect' : Euler's research on elastic curves / Lawrence D'Antonio
The Euler advection equation / Roger Godard
Euler rows the boat / C. Edward Sandifer
Lambert, Euler, and Lagrange as map makers / George W. Heine, III
Index.
Leonhard Euler, the decade 1750-1760 / Rüdiger Thiele
Euler's fourteen problems / C. Edward Sandifer
The Euler archive : giving Euler to the world / Dominic Klyve and Lee Stemkoski
The Euler-Bernoulli proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra / Christopher Baltus
The quadrature of lunes, from Hippocrates to Euler / Stacy G. Langton
What is a function? / Rüdiger Thiele
Enter, stage center : the early drama of the hyperbolic functions / Janet Heine Barnett
Euler's solution of the Basel problem : the longer story / C. Edward Sandifer
Euler and elliptic integrals / Lawrence D'Antonio
Euler's observations on harmonic progressions / Mark McKinzie
Origins of a classic formalist argument : power series expansions of the logarithmic and exponential functions / Mark McKinzie
Taylor and Euler : linking the discrete and continuous / Dick Jardine
Dances between continuous and discrete : Euler's summation formula / David J. Pengelley
Some combinatorics in Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi / Stacy G. Langton
The Genoese lottery and the partition function / Robert E. Bradley
Parallels in the work of Leonhard Euler and Thomas Clausen / Carolyn Lathrop and Lee Stemkoski
Three bodies? Why not four? : the motion of the lunar apsides / Robert E. Bradley
'The fabric of the universe is most perfect' : Euler's research on elastic curves / Lawrence D'Antonio
The Euler advection equation / Roger Godard
Euler rows the boat / C. Edward Sandifer
Lambert, Euler, and Lagrange as map makers / George W. Heine, III
Index.
Series
MAA tercentenary Euler celebration ; v. 5.
MAA spectrum.
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