书目名称 | Correspondence of Leonhard Euler with Christian Goldbach | 副标题 | Volume 1 | 编辑 | Leonhard Euler,Martin Mattmüller,Franz Lemmermeyer | 视频video | | 概述 | Documents the development of many of Euler’s most significant scientific achievements, particularly in number theory, including the Four Squares Theorem, the Pentagonal Number Theorem, Fermat’s Last T | 丛书名称 | Leonhard Euler, Opera Omnia | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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, and a wealth of insights into academic life in St. Petersburg and Berlin between 1725 and 1765..Part I includes an introduction and the original texts of the Euler-Goldbach letters, while Part II presents the English translations and documentary indices.. | 出版日期 | Book 2015Latest edition | 关键词 | Christian Goldbach; Leonhard Euler; biography: 18th century; history of mathematics: 18th century; histo | 版次 | 1 | copyright | Springer Basel 2015 |
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