Euler at 300
Subtitle: an appreciation
By: edited by Robert E. Bradley, Lawrence A. D'Antonio and C. Edward Sandifer
Contributors: Bradley, Robert E; D'Antonio, Lawrence A; Sandifer, Charles Edward, 1951-
Series: MAA tercentenary Euler celebration -- v. 5
Publisher: Mathematical Association of America
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780883855652
Subjects: Euler, Leonhard, -- 1707-1783; Mathematics -- History -- 18th century; Mathematicians -- Switzerland -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Leonhard Euler, the decade 1750-1760 / Rüdiger Thiele; title: Euler's fourteen problems / C. Edward Sandifer; title: The Euler archive : giving Euler to the world / Dominic Klyve and Lee Stemkoski; title: The Euler-Bernoulli proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra / Christopher Baltus; title: The quadrature of lunes, from Hippocrates to Euler / Stacy G. Langton; title: What is a function? / Rüdiger Thiele; title: Enter, stage center : the early drama of the hyperbolic functions / Janet Heine Barnett; title: Euler's solution of the Basel problem : the longer story / C. Edward Sandifer; title: Euler and elliptic integrals / Lawrence D'Antonio; title: Euler's observations on harmonic progressions / Mark McKinzie; title: Origins of a classic formalist argument : power series expansions of the logarithmic and exponential functions / Mark McKinzie; title: Taylor and Euler : linking the discrete and continuous / Dick Jardine; title: Dances between continuous and discrete : Euler's summation formula / David J. Pengelley; title: Some combinatorics in Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi / Stacy G. Langton; title: The Genoese lottery and the partition function / Robert E. Bradley; title: Parallels in the work of Leonhard Euler and Thomas Clausen / Carolyn Lathrop and Lee Stemkoski; title: Three bodies? Why not four? : the motion of the lunar apsides / Robert E. Bradley; title: 'The fabric of the universe is most perfect' : Euler's research on elastic curves / Lawrence D'Antonio; title: The Euler advection equation / Roger Godard; title: Euler rows the boat / C. Edward Sandifer; title: Lambert, Euler, and Lagrange as map makers / George W. Heine, III; title: Index