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Euler at 300 : an appreciation / edited by Robert E. Bradley, Lawrence A. D'Antonio and C. Edward Sandifer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- MAA tercentenary Euler celebration ; v. 5.
- MAA tercentenary Euler celebration ; v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783.
- Euler, Leonhard.
- Mathematics--History--18th century.
- Mathematics.
- Mathematicians--Switzerland--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- History.
- Switzerland.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 298 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Mathematical Association of America, 2007.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780883855652
- 0883855658
- OCLC:
- 166372994
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