Leonhard Euler: Life, Work and Legacy Volume 5 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780444527288)

The year 2007 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the Enlightenment's most important mathematicians and scientists, Leonhard Euler. This volume is a collection of 24 essays by some of the world's best Eulerian scholars from seven different countries about Euler, his life and his work. Some of the essays are historical, including much previously unknown information about Euler's life, his activities in the St. Petersburg Academy, the influence of the Russian Princess Dashkova, and Euler's philosophy. Others describe his influence on the subsequent growth of European mathematics and physics in the 19th century. Still others give technical details of Euler's innovations in probability, number theory, geometry, analysis, astronomy, mechanics and other fields of mathematics and science.

Author: Robert E. Bradley
ISBN-10: 0444527281
ISBN-13: 9780444527288
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2007
Pages: 540
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.17lbs
Size: 9.09h x 6.31w x 1.09d