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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dunham, William, 1947-

Series:

MAA spectrum

Spectrum, 2638-9045 ; v. 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783.

Euler, Leonhard.

Mathematicians--Switzerland--Biography.

Mathematicians.

Mathematics--History--18th century.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 309 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles)

Place of Publication:

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

System Details:

Mode of access : World Wide Web

Contents:

Introduction to Part I Leonhard Euler, B. F. Finkel (1897) Leonhard Euler, Supreme Geometer (abridged), C. Truesdell (1972) Euler (abridged), André Weil (1984) Frederick the Great on Mathematics and Mathematicians (abridged), Florian Cajori (1927) The Euler-Diderot Anecdote, B. H. Brown (1942) Ars Expositionis: Euler as Writer and Teacher, G. L. Alexanderson (1983) The Foremost Textbook of Modern Times, C. B. Boyer (1951) Leonhard Euler, 1707-1783, J. J. Burckhardt (1983) Euler's Output, A Historical Note, W. W. R. Ball (1924) Discoveries (a poem), Marta Sved and Dave Logothetti (1989) Bell's Conjecture (a poem), J. D. Memory (1997) A Response to "Bell's Conjecture" (a poem), Charlie Marion and William Dunham (1997) Introduction to Part II Euler and Infinite Series, Morris Kline (1983) Euler and the Zeta Function, Raymond Ayoub (1974) Addendum to: "Euler and the Zeta Function", A. G. Howson (1975) Euler Subdues a Very Obstreperous Series (abridged), E. J. Barbeau (1979) On the History of Euler's Constant, J. W. L. Glaisher (1872) A Mnemonic for Euler's Constant, Morgan Ward (1931) Euler and Differentials, Anthony P. Ferzola Leonhard Euler's Integral: A Historical Profile of the Gamma Function, Philip J. Davis (1959) Change of Variables in Multiple Integrals: Euler to Cartan, Victor J. Katz (1982) Euler's Vision of a General Partial Differential Calculus for a Generalized Kind of Function, Jesper Lützen (1983) 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 Erdős and Underwood Dudley (1983) Euler's Pentagona Number Theorem, George E. Andrews (1983) Euler and Quadratic Reciprocity, Harold M. Edwards (1983) Euler and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, William Dunham (1991) Guessing and Proving, George Pólya (1978) The Truth about Königsberg, Brian Hopkins and Robin J. Wilson (2004) Graeco-Latin Squares and a Mistaken Conjecture of Euler, Dominic Klyve and Lee Stemkoski (2006)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781470457440 (online)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.