The Early Mathematics of Leonhard Euler gives an article-by-article description of Leonhard Euler's early mathematical works, the 50 or so mathematical articles he wrote before he left St. Petersburg
Sandifer has been studying Euler for decades and is one of the world's leading experts on his work. This volume is the second collection of Sandifer's “How Euler Did It” columns. Each is a jewel of hi
Sandifer (mathematics, Western Connecticut State U.) takes a suitably respectful but also jocose tone in this compilation of his 40 monthly chapters about the work of the Swiss mathematician and scien
In 1821, Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) published a textbook, the Cours d’analyse, to accompany his course in analysis at the Ecole Polytechnique. It is one of the most influential mathematics book
The year 2007 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the Enlightenment’s most important mathematicians and scientists, Leonhard Euler. This volume is a collection of 24 essays by some of t
This monograph is an annotated translation of what is considered to be the world’s first calculus textbook, originally published in French in 1696. That anonymously published textbook on differential
