The genius of Euler
Subtitle: Reflections on his Life and Work
By: edited by William Dunham
Contributors: Dunham, William, 1947-
Series: MAA tercentenary Euler celebration -- v. 2
Publisher: Mathematical Association of  America
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780883855584
Subjects: Euler, Leonhard, -- 1707-1783; Mathematicians -- Switzerland -- Biography; Mathematics -- History -- 18th century
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: label: Part I: Biography and Background; label: Introduction to Part I
pagenum: 3; label: Leonhard Euler
title: B. F. Finkel (1897)
pagenum: 5; label: Leonard Euler, Supreme Geometer (abridged)
title: C. Truesdell (1972)
pagenum: 13; label: Euler (abridged)
title: Andre Weil (1984)
pagenum: 43; label: Frederick the Great on Mathematics and Mathematicians (abridged)
title: Florian cajori (1927)
pagenum: 51; label: The Euler-Diderot Anecdote
title: B. H. Brown (1942)
pagenum: 57; label: Ars Expositionis: Euler as Wrüer and Teacher
title: G. L Alexanderson (1983)
pagenum: 61; label: The Foremost Textbook of Modern Times
title: C. B. Boyer (1951)
pagenum: 69; label: Leonhard Euler: 1707—1783
title: J. J. Burckhardt (1983)
pagenum: 75; label: Euler's Output, A Historical Note
title: W. W. R. Ball (1924)
pagenum: 89; label: Discoveries (a poem)
title: Marta Sved and Dave Logothetti (1989)
pagenum: 91; label: Bell's Conjecture (a poem)
title: J. D. Memory (1997)
pagenum: 93; label: A Response to "Bell's Conjecture" (a poem)
title: Charlie Marim and William Dunham (1997)
pagenum: 95; label: Part II: Mathematics; label: Introduction to Part 2
pagenum: 99; label: Euler and Infinite Series
title: Morris Kline (1983)
pagenum: 101; label: Euler and the Zeta Function
title: Raymond Ayoub (1974)
pagenum: 113; label: Addendum to: "Euler and the Zeta Function"
title: A. G. Howson (1975)
pagenum: 133; label: Euler Subdues a Very Obstreperous Series (abridged)
title: E. J. Barbeau (1979)
pagenum: 135; label: On the History of Euler's Constant
title: J. W. L. Glaisher (1872)
pagenum: 147; label: A Mnemonic for Euler's Constant
title: Morgan Ward (1931)
pagenum: 153; label: Euler and Differentials
title: Anthony p. Ferzola (1994)
pagenum: 155; label: Leonhard Euler's Integral: A Historical Pmfile of the Gamma Function
title: Philip J. Davis (1959)
pagenum: 167; label: Change of Variables in Multiple Integrals: Euler to Cartan
title: Victor J. Katz (1982)
pagenum: 185; label: Euler's Vision Of a General Partial Differential Calculus for a Generalized Kind Of Function
title: Jesper Lutzen (1983)
pagenum: 197; label: On the Calculus of Variations and Its Major Influences On the Mathematics of the First Half of Our Century
title: Erwin Kreyszig (1994)
pagenum: 209; label: Some Remarks and in Number Theory Related to the Work Of Euler
title: Paul Erdös and Underwood Dudley ( 1983)
pagenum: 215; label: Euler's Pentagonal Number Theorem
title: George E. Andrews (1983)
pagenum: 225; label: Euler and Quadratic Reciprocity
title: Harold M. Edwards (1983)
pagenum: 233; label: Euler and the Fundamental Theorem Of Algebra
title: William Dunham (1991)
pagenum: 243; label: Guessing and Proving
title: George Pólya (1978)
pagenum: 257; label: The Truth about Konigsberg
title: Brian Hopkins and Robin J. Wilson (2004)
pagenum: 263; label: Graeco-Latin Squares and a Mistaken Conjecture of Euler
title: Dominic Klyve and Lee Stemkoski (2006)
pagenum: 273; label: Glossary
pagenum: 289; label: List of Photos
pagenum: 303; label: Index
pagenum: 303; label: About the Editor
pagenum: 309