This is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707-83),
one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of
all time. In this comprehensive and authoritative account, Ronald
Calinger connects the story of Euler's eventful life to the
astonishing achievements that place him in the company of
Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss. Drawing chiefly on Euler's massive
published works and correspondence, which fill more than eighty
volumes so far, this biography sets Euler's work in its
multilayered context--personal, intellectual, institutional,
political, cultural, religious, and social. It is a story of nearly
incessant accomplishment, from Euler's fundamental contributions to
almost every area of pure and applied mathematics--especially
calculus, number theory, notation, optics, and celestial, rational,
and fluid mechanics--to his advancements in shipbuilding,
telescopes, ballistics, cartography, chronology, and music theory.
The narrative takes the reader from Euler's childhood and education
in Basel through his first period in St. Petersburg, 1727-41, where
he gained a European reputation by solving the Basel problem and
systematically developing analytical mechanics. Invited to Berlin
by Frederick II, Euler published his famous Introductio in analysin
infinitorum, devised continuum mechanics, and proposed a pulse
theory of light. Returning to St. Petersburg in 1766, he created
the analytical calculus of variations, developed the most precise
lunar theory of the time that supported Newton's dynamics, and
published the best-selling Letters to a German Princess--all
despite eye problems that ended in near-total blindness. In telling
the remarkable story of Euler and how his achievements brought
pan-European distinction to the Petersburg and Berlin academies of
sciences, the book also demonstrates with new depth and detail the
central role of mathematics in the Enlightenment.
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