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Reflections on his Life and Work

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The Genius of Euler

Reflections on his Life and Work

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Table of Contents

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

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Hardcover
Number of pages
309
Dimensions
10 x 7.2 x 1 inches
Weight
1.8 pounds

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