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Correspondence of Leonhard Euler with Christian Goldbach: Volume 1
Leonhard Euler
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Mattmuller, Martin; Lemmermeyer, Franz. Series: Leonhard Euler, Opera Omnia. Num Pages: 580 pages, 53 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PBH; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 285 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1514.
When Leonhard Euler first arrived at the Russian Academy of Sciences, at the age of 20, his career was supported and promoted by the Academy's secretary, the Prussian jurist and amateur mathematician Christian Goldbach (1690-1764). Their encounter would grow into a lifelong friendship, as evinced by nearly 200 letters sent over 35 years. This exchange - Euler's most substantial long-term correspondence - has now been edited for the first time with an English translation, ample commentary and documentary indices. These present an overview of 18th-century number theory, its sources and repercussions, many details of the protagonists' biographies, ... Read more
When Leonhard Euler first arrived at the Russian Academy of Sciences, at the age of 20, his career was supported and promoted by the Academy's secretary, the Prussian jurist and amateur mathematician Christian Goldbach (1690-1764). Their encounter would grow into a lifelong friendship, as evinced by nearly 200 letters sent over 35 years. This exchange - Euler's most substantial long-term correspondence - has now been edited for the first time with an English translation, ample commentary and documentary indices. These present an overview of 18th-century number theory, its sources and repercussions, many details of the protagonists' biographies, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer Basel
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Leonhard Euler, Opera Omnia
Condition
New
Weight
1513g
Number of Pages
580
Place of Publication
, Switzerland
ISBN
9783034808927
SKU
V9783034808927
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Reviews for Correspondence of Leonhard Euler with Christian Goldbach: Volume 1
The present book in the edition of Leonhard Euler's uvre is concerned with the correspondence of Euler with Christian Goldbach. ... The present volume is a pearl in the edition of Euler's correspondence and a must-read for historians of mathematics particularly interested in the history of number theory. (Thomas Sonar, zbMATH 1361.01008, 2017)