Leonhard Euler
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (782 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3764375388 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 180 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Euler was not only by far the most productive mathematician in the history of mankind, but also one of the greatest scholars of all time. He attained, like only a few scholars, a degree of popularity and fame which may well be compared with that of Galilei, Newton, or Einstein.Moreover he was a cosmopolitan in the truest sense of the word; he lived during his first twenty years in Basel, was active altogether for more than thirty years in Petersburg and for a quarter of a century in Berlin.Leonhard Euler’s unusually rich life and broadly diversified activity in the immediate vicinity of important personalities which have made history, may well justify an exposition.This book is based in part on unpublished sources and comes right out of the current res
Euler demystified This is a very succinct book. The author provided many details from Euler's life based on reliable sources. The work shows the relations of L.E. with the greatest of his era, both in a scientific sense and political. A handy reference book. The only drawback for me is that it was written in German, so I need a translator (Google translator is doing a good job) to read certain passages. A clinical example of how to write a good book (with a collection of interesting figures, pictures, etc.) using only 150 pages of a small format. Already a classic.. English translation of German Euler biography John - Austin, TX The translators for this biography of Leonhard Euler (originally published in German) are clearly not 100% fluent in English - but that did not stop me from learning a great deal more about Euler's life than I had known previously. This book includes numerous illustrations of Euler book covers, diagrams from his works, portraits of important persons who lived during Euler's lifetime, etc. There is very little actual math in this book, if that's what you're looking for. However, it does give a good account of all of Euler's major mathematical and scientific contributions. This b. A good biography of an important mathematician Margaret Tent This book is an excellent presentation of the story of Euler's life. It includes some bits of humor (like seeing the streets in Basel named respectively Leonhardstrasse and Eulerstrasse as jointly honoring the man although neither street is actually named for the great mathematician). Unlike "Euler the Master of us All," the book is organized around the chronology of his life rather than the concepts he studied, and it includes new details of his life. It also has some wonderful illustrations.
There are no mathematical details and no formulas. With non-technical readers in mind, Fellmann privileges those aspects of Euler's work that are more accessible, so his music theory gets much more attention than his work on elliptic integrals and his lunar theory and optics more than the geometry or number theory. MAA Reviews. Even then, the sections that go into Euler's work are marked with asterisks so that readers who are not willing to delve into specifics can skip them. This is the only biography of Leonhard Euler currently available in English, and it would be worth having for that reason alone. () The book is a good introductory biography of Euler, and it is handsomely produced, with nice paper and lots of illustrations. Fellmann has chosen to make this a non-technical biography. It is a welcome addition to the literature on Euler. Short accounts of Euler's work are included, but few