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Title The genius of Euler : reflections on his life and work / edited by William Dunham.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Mathematical Association of America, [2007]
©2007

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 Moore Stacks  QA29.E8 G46 2007    Available  ---
Description xvi, 309 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 26 cm.
Series Spectrum series
The MAA tercentenary Euler celebration ; v. 2
MAA spectrum.
MAA tercentenary Euler celebration ; v. 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Pt. I. Biography and background -- Leonhard Euler / B. F. Finkel -- Leonard Euler, Supreme Geometer (abridged) / C. Truesdell -- Euler (abridged); / André Weil -- Frederick the Great on mathematics and mathematicians (abridged) / Florian Cajori -- The Euler-Diderot anecdote / B.H. Brown -- Ars Expositionis : Euler as writer and teacher / G.L. Alexanderson -- The foremost textbook of modern times / C.B. Boyer -- Leonhard Euler, 1707-1783 / J.J. Burckhardt -- Euler's output, a historical note / W.W.R. Ball -- Bell's conjecture (a poem) / J.D. Memory -- A response to "Bell's Conjecture" (a poem) / Charlie Marion and William Dunham -- pt.2. Mathematics -- Euler and infinite series / Morris Kline -- Euler and the Zeta function / Raymond Ayoub -- Addendum to : "Euler and the Zeta function" / A.G. Howson -- On the calculus of variables in multiple integrals : Euler to Cartan / Victor J. Katz -- Euler's vision of a general partial differential calculus for a generalized kind of function / Jesper Lützen -- Some remarks and problems in number theory related to the work of Euler / Paul Erdös and Underwood Dudley -- Euler's pentagonal number theorem / George E. Andrews -- Euler and quadratic reciprocity / Harold M. Edwards -- Euler and the fundamental theorem of algebra / William Dunham -- Guessing and proving / George Pölya -- The truth about Königsberg / Brian Hopkins and Robin J. Wilson -- Graeco-Latin squares and a mistaken conjecture of Euler / Dominic Klyve and Lee Stemkoski.
Subject Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783.
Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783.
Mathematicians -- Switzerland -- Biography.
Mathematicians.
Switzerland.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Mathematics -- History -- 18th century.
Mathematics.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Dunham, William, 1947-
ISBN 0883855585
9780883855584