The genius of Euler : reflections on his life and work / edited by William Dunham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dunham, William, 1947-

Series:

MAA tercentenary Euler celebration ; v. 2.

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The MAA tercentenary Euler celebration ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783.

Euler, Leonhard.

Mathematicians--Switzerland--Biography.

Mathematicians.

Mathematics--History--18th century.

Mathematics.

Euler--Leonhard--1707-1783.

History.

Switzerland.

Mathematicians--Switzerland.

Local Subjects:

Euler--Leonhard--1707-1783.

Mathematicians--Switzerland.

Mathematics--History--18th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 309 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Mathematical Association of America, [2007]

Summary:

The collected articles, aimed at a mathematically literate audience, address aspects of Euler's life and work, from the biographical to the historical to the mathematical. The oldest of these was written in 1872, and the most recent dates to 2006. Some of the papers focus on Euler and his world, others describe a specific Eulerian achievement, and still others survey a branch of mathematics to which Euler contributed significantly. -- From publisher description.

Contents:

Leonhard Euler / B.F. Finkel

Leonard Euler, supreme geometer (abridged) / C. Truesdell

Euler (abridged) / André Weil

Frederick the Great on mathematics and mathematicians (abridged) / Florian Cajori

The Euler-Diderot anecdote / B.H. Brown

Ars expositionis : Euler as writer and teacher / G.L. Alexanderson

The foremost textbook of modern times / C.B. Boyer

Leonhard Euler, 1707-1783 / J.J. Burckhardt

Euler's output, a historical note / W.W.R. Ball

Discoveries (a poem) / Marta Sved and Dave Logothetti

Bell's conjecture (a poem) / J.D. Memory

A response to Bell's conjecture / Charlie Marion and William Dunham

Euler and infinite series / Morris Kline

Euler and the zeta function / Raymond Ayoub

Addendum to Euler and the zeta function / A.G. Howson

Euler subdues a very obstreperous series (abridged) / E.J. Barbeau

On the history of Euler's constant / J.W.L. Glaisher

A mnemonic for Euler's constant / Morgan Ward

Euler and differentials / Anthony P. Ferzola

Leonhard Euler's integral : a historical profile of the gamma function / Philip J. Davis

Change of variables in multiple integrals : Euler to Cartan / Victor J. Katz

Euler's vision of a general partial differential calculus for a generalized kind of function / Jesper Lützen

On the calculus of variations and its major influences on the mathematics of the first half of our century / Erwin Kreyszig

Some remarks and problems in number theory related to the work of Euler / Paul Erdös and Underwood Dudley

Euler's pentagonal number theorem / George E. Andrews

Euler and quadratic reciprocity / Harold M. Edwards

Euler and the fundamental theorem of algebra / William Dunham

Guessing and proving / George Pólya

The truth about Königsberg / Brian Hopkins and Robin J. Wilson

Graeco-Latin squares and a mistaken conjecture of Euler / Dominic Klyve and Lee Stemkoski.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0883855585

9780883855584

OCLC:

82371533

Online:

Publisher description