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

Contributor Bogoliubov, N. N. (Nikolai Nikolaevich), 1909-1992.

Edition Statement:English ed.

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

Descriptionxiv, 425 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Note:Modern Developments of Euler's Ideas / 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. Michailov 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. Ishlinskii -- 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 of 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. Grigor'ian 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 / Nikolai Fuss -- Leonhard Euler's family and descendants / I. R. Gekker and A. A. Euler.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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