Euler
The Master of Us All
Published on 30. December 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
185 pages
978-1-4704-6618-3 (ISBN)
Description
Leonhard Euler was one of the most prolific mathematicians that have ever lived. This book examines the huge scope of mathematical areas explored and developed by Euler, which includes number theory, combinatorics, geometry, complex variables and many more. The information known to Euler over 300 years ago is discussed, and many of his advances are reconstructed. Readers will be left in no doubt about the brilliance and pervasive influence of Euler's work.
Reviews / Votes
An ideal book for enlivening undergraduate mathematics ... he [Dunham] has Euler dazzling us with cleverness, page after page."" - Choice""Mathematician William Dunham has written a superb book about the life and amazing achievements of one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. Unlike earlier writings about Euler, Professor Dunham gives crystal clear accounts of how Euler ingeniously proved his most significant results, and how later experts have stood on Euler's broad shoulders. Such a book has long been overdue. It will not need to be done again for a long long time."" - Martin Gardner
""William Dunham has done it again! In Euler: the Master of Us All, he has produced a masterful portrait of one of the most fertile mathematicians of all time. With Dunham's beautiful clarity and wit, we can follow with amazement Euler's strokes of genius which laid the groundwork for most of the mathematics we have today."" - Ron Graham, Chief Scientist, AT & T
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Providence
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4704-6618-3 (9781470466183)
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03/1999
Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
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