The legacy of Leonhard Euler
Subtitle: a tricentennial tribute
By: Lokenath Debnath
Publisher: Imperial College Press; Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Singapore; Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781848165250
Subjects: Mathematicians; Rezeption; Mathematics; Mathematik; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-381) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mathematics before Leonhard Euler; title: Brief biographical sketch and career of Leonhard Euler; title: Euler's contributions to number theory and algebra; title: Euler's contributions to geometry and spherical trigonometry; title: Euler's formula for polyhedra, topology and graph theory; title: Euler's contributions to calculus and analysis; title: Euler's contributions to the infinite series and the zeta function; title: Euler's beta and gamma functions and infinite products; title: Euler and differential equations; title: The Euler equations of motion in fluid mechanics; title: Euler's contributions to mechanics and elasticity; title: Euler's work on the probability theory; title: Euler's contributions to ballistics; title: Euler and his work on astronomy and physics.