Leonhard Euler: The First St. Petersburg Years (1727–1741)
✍ Scribed by Ronald Calinger
- Book ID
- 102567778
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 395 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0315-0860
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✦ Synopsis
After reconstructing his tutorial with Johann Bernoulli, this article principally investigates the personality and work of Leonhard Euler during his first St. Petersburg years. It explores the groundwork for his fecund research program in number theory, mechanics, and infinitary analysis as well as his contributions to music theory, cartography, and naval science. This article disputes Condorcet's thesis that Euler virtually ignored practice for theory. It next probes his thorough response to Newtonian mechanics and his preliminary opposition to Newtonian optics and Leibniz-Wolffian philosophy. Its closing section details his negotiations with Frederick II to move to Berlin.