Leonhard Euler

• Main Author: Fellmann, Emil A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2007.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

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 cos...

Table of Contents:

• Basel 1707–1727
• The first Petersburg period 1727–1741
• The Berlin period 1741–1766
• The second Petersburg period 1766–1783
• Epilogue.