How Euler did it / C. Edward Sandifer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sandifer, Charles Edward, 1951- author.

Series:

Spectrum, 2638-9045 ; v. 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783.

Euler, Leonhard.

Mathematics--Miscellanea.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 237 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Washington, DC] : Mathematical Association of America, c2007.

System Details:

Mode of access : World Wide Web

Contents:

Euler's Greatest Hits Part I: Geometry $V, E$ and $F$, Part 1 (June 2004) $V, E$ and $F$, Part 2 (July 2004) 19th Century Triangle Geometry (May 2006) Beyond Isosceles Triangles (April 2004) The Euler-Pythagoras Theorem (January 2005) Cramer's Paradox (August 2004) Part II: Number Theory Fermat's Little Theorem (November 2003) Amicable Numbers (November 2005) Odd Perfect Numbers (November (2006) Euler and Pell (April 2005) Factors of Forms (December 2005) $2aa+bb$ (January 2006) Part III: Combinatorics Philip Naudé's Problem (October 2005) Venn Diagrams (January 2004) Knight's Tour (April 2006) Derangements (September 2004) Orthogonal Matrices (August 2006) Part IV: Analysis Piecewise Functions (January 2007) Finding Logarithms by Hand (July 2005) Roots by Recursion (June 2005) Theorema Arithmeticum (March 2005) A Mystery about the Law of cosines (December 2004) A Memorable Example of False Induction (August 2005) Foundations of Calculus (September 2006) Wallis's Formula (November 2004) Arc Length of an Ellipse (October 2004) Mixed Partial Derivatives (May 2004) Goldbach's Series (February 2005) Bernoulli Numbers (September 2005) Divergent Series (June 2006) Who Proved $e$ is Irrational? (February 2006) Infinitely Many Primes (March 2006) Formal Sums and Products (July 2006) Estimating the Basel Problem (December 2003) Basel Problem with Integrals (March 2004) Cannonball Curves (December 2006) Propulsion of Ships (February 2004) How Euler Discovered America (October 2006) The Euler Society (May 2005)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society. 2012

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781470457457 (online)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.