4/7/2023 0 Comments Mathematician leonhard![]() ![]() Seven chapters deal with the apogee years of Euler in Berlin (1741-1766). But when the climate became unfavorable at the Academy around 1740, Euler accepted an invitation from Frederick the Great who wanted to start a prestigious Prussian Academy in Berlin. He accepted an invitation from this Academy because he was not appointed professor in Basel as he had hoped and because that Academy attracted the best scientists from Europe, among which two Bernoulli brothers, sons of Euler's teacher Johann I Bernoulli. Then there are four chapters about Euler's first stay (1727-1741) at the Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. Since the focus is on his scientifically active life, the first chapter collects the first twenty years that Euler spent in Basel. The way Calinger has organized the book is by subdividing the life of Euler into chapters that discuss time slices of only a few successive years. ![]() Much about Euler's life and scientific contributions can be looked up on the Web, which I will not repeat in detail here. ![]() What we do get is the background of when Euler did what, how, and why. Both Euler's life and his work is discussed, but the the technicalities of the mathematics as such, like for example the discussions of Sandifer's columns, are not included. Of all the biographical publications, the present book is the most complete from an historical perspective. Sandifer's monthly column How Euler did it. Many of his papers are available in electronic form at the euler archive of the MAA and some were discussed in E. But besides the books about Euler, there is the enormous output of Euler himself, being collected in more than eighty volumes of the Opera omnia. Henry, put emphasizing on Euler as a geometer, and there are of course the MAA tercentenary volumes and there are more. Fellmann's German biography from 1995 and even a graphical novel by Heyne and Heyne (see e.g. Some were written, revived or translated on the occasion of the tercentenary year 2007 which brought us an English translation of E. Many papers and books were devoted to his life and work already. He contributed to mathematics in analysis, graph theory, number theory, geometry and many others, but he also was quite active in mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, music theory, and astronomical observations. Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) is not only the prominent mathematician of the 18th century, he was also physicist, astronomer, engineer, and administrator. ![]()
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