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Leonhard Euler : mathematical genius in the Enlightenment /
An acclaimed biography of the Enlightenment's greatest mathematician This is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707–83), one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of all time. In this comprehensive and authoritative account, Ronald Calinger connects the story...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Machine generated contents note: 1. The Swiss Years: 1707: to April 1727
- "Das alte ehrwurdige Basel" (Worthy Old Basel)
- Lineage and Early Childhood
- Formal Education in Basel
- Initial Publications and the Search for a Position
- 2."Into the Paradise of Scholars": April 1727 to 1730
- Founding Saint Petersburg and the Imperial Academy of Sciences
- A Fledgling Camp Divided
- The Entrance of Euler
- 3. Departures, and Euler in Love: 1730 to 1734
- Courtship and Marriage
- Groundwork Research and Massive Computations
- 4. Reaching the "Inmost Heart of Mathematics": 1734 to 1740
- The Basel Problem and the Mechanica
- The Konigsberg Bridges and More Foundational Work in Mathematics
- Scientia navalis, Polemics, and the Prix de Paris
- Pedagogy and Music Theory
- Daniel Bernoulli and Family
- 5. Life Becomes Rather Dangerous: 1740 to August 1741
- Another Paris Prize, a Textbook, and Book Sales
- Health, Interregnum Dangers, and Prussian Negotiations.
- Note continued: 6.A Call to Berlin: August 1741 to 1744
- "Ex Oriente Lux": Toward a Frederician Era for the Sciences
- The Arrival of the Grand Algebraist
- The New Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- Europe's Mathematician, Whom Others Wished to Emulate
- Relations with the Petersburg Academy of Sciences
- 7."The Happiest Man in the World": 1744 to 1746
- Renovation, Prizes, and Leadership
- Investigating the Fabric of the Universe
- Contacts with the Petersburg Academy of Sciences
- Home, Chess, and the King
- 8. The Apogee Years, I: 1746 to 1748
- The Start of the New Royal Academy
- The Monadic Dispute, Court Relations, and Accolades
- Exceeding the Pillars of Hercules in the Mathematical Sciences
- Academic Clashes in Berlin, and Euler's Correspondence with the Petersburg Academy
- The Euler Family
- 9. The Apogee Years, II: 1748 to 1750
- The Introductio and Another Paris Prize
- Competitions and Disputes.
- Note continued: Decrial, Tasks, and Printing Scientia navalis
- A Sensational Retraction and Discord
- State Projects and the "Vanity of Mathematics"
- The Konig Visit and Daily Correspondence
- Family Affairs
- 10. The Apogee Years, III: 1750 to 1753
- Competitions in Saint Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin
- Maupertuis's Cosmologie and Selected Research
- Academic Administration
- Family Life and Philidor
- Rivalries: Euler, d'Alembert, and Clairaut
- The Maupertuis-Konig Affair: The Early Second Phase
- Two Camps, Problems, and Inventions
- Botany and Maps
- The Maupertuis-Konig Affair: The Late Second and Early Third Phases
- Planetary Perturbations and Mechanics
- Music, Rameau, and Basel
- Strife with Voltaire and the Academy Presidency
- 11. Increasing Precision and Generalization in the Mathematical Sciences: 1753 to 1756
- The Dispute over the Principle of Least Action: The Third Phase
- Administration and Research at the Berlin Academy.
- Note continued: The Charlottenburg Estate
- Wolff, Segner, and Mayer
- A New Correspondent and Lessons for Students
- Institutiones calculi differentialis and Fluid Mechanics
- A New Telescope, the Longitude Prize, Haller, and Lagrange
- Anleitung zur Nauturlehre and Electricity and Optimism Prizes
- 12. War and Estrangement, 1756 to July 1766
- The Antebellum Period
- Into the Great War and Beyond
- Losses, Lessons, and Leadership
- Rigid-Body Disks, Lambert, and Better Optical Instruments
- The Presidency of the Berlin Academy
- What Soon Happened, and Denouement
- 13. Return to Saint Petersburg: Academy Reform and Great Productivity, July 1766 to 1773
- Restoring the Academy: First Efforts
- The Grand Geometer: A More Splendid Oeuvre
- A Further Research Corpus: Relentless Ingenuity
- The Kulibin Bridge, the Great Fire, and One Fewer Distraction
- Persistent Objectives: To Perfect, to Create, and to Order
- 14. Vigorous Autumnal Years: 1773 to 1782.
- Note continued: The Euler Circle
- Elements of Number Theory and Second Ship Theory
- The Diderot Story and Katharina's Death
- The Imperial Academy: Projects and Library
- The Russian Navy, Turgot's Request, and a Successor
- At the Academy: Technical Matters and a New Director
- A Second Marriage and Rapprochement with Frederick II
- End of Correspondence and Exit from the Academy
- Mapmaking and Prime Numbers
- A Notable Visit and Portrait
- Magic Squares and Another Honor
- 15. Toward "a More Perfect State of Dreaming": 1782 to October 1783
- The Inauguration of Princess Dashkova
- 1783 Articles
- Final Days
- Major Eulogies and an Epilogue.