MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2007930320
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008 070606s2007 dcuach b 001 0 eng c
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050 00 $aQA29.E8$bE95 2007
082 00 $a510$222
245 00 $aEuler at 300 :$ban appreciation /$cedited by Robert E. Bradley, Lawrence A. D'Antonio and C. Edward Sandifer.
260 $a[Washington, D.C.] :$bMathematical Association of America,$cc2007.
300 $axvi, 298 p. :$bill., facsims., ports. ;$c27 cm.
440 4 $aThe MAA tercentenary Euler celebration ;$vv. 5
490 1 $aSpectrum series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Leonhard Euler, the decade 1750-1760 / Rüdiger Thiele -- Euler's fourteen problems / C. Edward Sandifer -- The Euler archive : giving Euler to the world / Dominic Klyve and Lee Stemkoski -- The Euler-Bernoulli proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra / Christopher Baltus -- The quadrature of lunes, from Hippocrates to Euler / Stacy G. Langton -- What is a function? / Rüdiger Thiele -- Enter, stage center : the early drama of the hyperbolic functions / Janet Heine Barnett -- Euler's solution of the Basel problem : the longer story / C. Edward Sandifer -- Euler and elliptic integrals / Lawrence D'Antonio -- Euler's observations on harmonic progressions / Mark McKinzie -- Origins of a classic formalist argument : power series expansions of the logarithmic and exponential functions / Mark McKinzie -- Taylor and Euler : linking the discrete and continuous / Dick Jardine -- Dances between continuous and discrete : Euler's summation formula / David J. Pengelley -- Some combinatorics in Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi / Stacy G. Langton -- The Genoese lottery and the partition function / Robert E. Bradley -- Parallels in the work of Leonhard Euler and Thomas Clausen / Carolyn Lathrop and Lee Stemkoski -- Three bodies? Why not four? : the motion of the lunar apsides / Robert E. Bradley -- 'The fabric of the universe is most perfect' : Euler's research on elastic curves / Lawrence D'Antonio -- The Euler advection equation / Roger Godard -- Euler rows the boat / C. Edward Sandifer -- Lambert, Euler, and Lagrange as map makers / George W. Heine, III -- Index.
600 10 $aEuler, Leonhard,$d1707-1783.
600 10 $aEuler, Leonhard,$d1707-1783$xAppreciation.
650 0 $aMathematics$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aMathematicians$zSwitzerland$vBiography.
700 1 $aBradley, Robert E.
700 1 $aD'Antonio, Lawrence A.
700 1 $aSandifer, Charles Edward,$d1951-
830 0 $aMAA spectrum.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0805/2007930320.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0916/2007930320-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0916/2007930320-b.html