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Title

Euler and modern science / edited by N.N. Bogolyubov, G.K. Michaĭlov, and A.P. Yushkevich ; translated from Russian by Robert Burns.

Publication

[Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• I︠U︡shkevich, A. P. (Adolʹf Pavlovich), 1906-
• Bogoli͡ubov, N. N. (Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich), 1909-1992.
• Mikhaĭlov, G. K.
• Burns, Robert.

Description

xiv, 425 p. : ill., facsims., maps, ports.; 26 cm.

Summary

"This book is an English translation of a collection of Russian articles presented at a conference held in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1983 to mark the 200th anniversary of Euler's death. (The originals of two of the articles were actually in German.) The present English translation appears in 2007, exactly 300 years after Euler's birth."--Jacket

Series Statement

Spectrum series

Uniform Title

• Razvitie ideĭ Leonarda Ėĭlera i sovremennai͡a nauka. English.
• MAA tercentenary Euler celebration ; v. 4.

Alternative Title

Razvitie ideĭ Leonarda Ėĭlera i sovremennai︠a︡ nauka

Subject

• Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783 > Science
• 1700-1799
• Mathematics > History > 18th century
• Mathematicians > Switzerland > Biography
• Scientists > Switzerland > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction -- Translator's note -- From the editors -- Opening speech of the symposium 'Modern Developments of Euler's Ideas', October 24, 1983 / A. P. Aleksandrov -- Leonhard Euler : his life and work / A. P. Yushkevich -- Leonhard Euler : active and honored member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences / Yu. Kh. Kopelevich -- The part played by the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (the Academy of Sciences of the USSR) in the publication of Euler's collected works / E. P. Ozhigova -- Leonhard Euler and the Berlin Academy of Sciences / K. Grau -- Was Leonhard Euler driven from Berlin by J. H. Lambert? / K.-R. Biermann -- Euler's mathematical notebooks / E. Knobloch -- On Euler's surviving manuscripts and notebooks / G. P. Matvievskaya -- The manuscript materials of Euler on number theory / G. P. Matvievskaya and E. P. Ozhigova -- Euler's contribution to algebra / I. G. Bashmakova -- Diophantine equations in Euler's works / T. A. Lavrinenko --
• The foundations of mechanics and hydrodynamics in Euler's works / G. K. Michaĭlov and L. I. Sedov -- Leonhard Euler and the variational principles of mechanics / V. V. Rumyantsev -- Leonhard Euler and the mechanics of elastic systems / N. V. Banichuk and A. Yu. Ishlinskĭi -- Euler's research in mechanics during the first Petersburg period / N. N. Polyakhov -- The significance of Euler's research in ballistics / A. P. Mandryka -- Euler and the development of astronomy in Russia / V. K. Abalakin and E. A. Grebenikov -- Euler and the evolution of celestial mechanics / N. I. Nevskaya and K. V. Kholshevnikov -- New evidence concerning Euler's development as an astronomer and historian of science / N. I. Nevskaya -- Leonhard Euler in correspondence with Clairaut, d'Alembert, and Lagrange / A. P. Yushkevich and R. Taton -- Letters to a German Princess and Euler's physics / A. T. Grigorʹian and V. S. Kirsanov -- Euler and I. P. Kulibin / N. M. Raskin --
• Euler and the history of a certain musical-mathematical idea / E. V. Gertsman -- Euler's music-theoretical manuscripts and the formation of his conception of the theory of music / S. S. Tserlyuk-Askadskaya -- An unknown portrait of Euler by J. F. A. Darbès / G. B. Andreeva and M. P. Vikturina -- Eulogy in memory of Leonhard Euler / Nikolaĭ Fuss -- Leonhard Euler's family and descendants / I. R. Gekker and A. A. Euler -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780883855645
• 088385564X

LCCN

^^2007929594

OCLC

166372993

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library