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Euler on Your Own

Euler on Your Own. How to use the available sources without learning Latin first Friday, August 11, 2006. Original sources. Journals from St. Petersburg and Berlin Archives in Berlin, St. Petersburg and Moscow 1 or 2 new letters discovered each year Latin, French, German and Russian

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Euler on Your Own

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  1. Euler on Your Own How to use the available sources without learning Latin first Friday, August 11, 2006

  2. Original sources • Journals from St. Petersburg and Berlin • Archives in Berlin, St. Petersburg and Moscow • 1 or 2 new letters discovered each year • Latin, French, German and Russian • Rare and expensive

  3. Opera Omnia • coming out since 1915 • 80 volumes in 4 series

  4. Opera Omnia • Series I – Mathematics – 29 volumes • Series II – Mechanics and Astronomy – 31 volumes • Series III – Optics, sound, miscellaneous – 12 volumes • Series IV – Letters and notebooks – projected to be 12 volumes of letters, 4 out

  5. Opera Omnia • Birkhauser, 160 Euros/volume • 72 volumes in Series I-III for 14000 Euros • Mostly in Latin (80%) with introductions in German • In many libraries

  6. East Germany – 1960’s • Euler-Goldbach letters • 3 volumes of other correspondence • Registres of the Berlin Academy • two Festschriften (1957, 1983)

  7. In English • Euler: The Master of Us All • available from the MAA • AMS – Varajaradan • MAA – four books in 2007 • Elsevier – Bradley/Sandifer

  8. In Translation • John Blanton’s Introductio (2 vol) and Calculus Differentialis (first part only) • Algebra • Letters to a German Princess • Konigsburg Bridge Problem • Continued Fractions • Artillery (very rare) • Maneuvering of Ships (very, very rare)

  9. On Line • The Euler Archive • www.EulerArchive.org

  10. www.EulerArchive.org • Dominic Klyve and Lee Stemkoski at Dartmouth • Scanned images of over 800 original papers from the Commentarii • Electronic Eneström and Fuss indices

  11. The Euler Archive • Tables of Contents for the Commentarii • Links to translations • More useful stuff is to come. • “With the Euler Archive, we hope to move 18th century scholarship into the 21st Century.”

  12. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften • www.bbaw.de, www.bbaw.de/pub/historisch.html • early serial publications • Miscellanea Berolinensia • Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres.(over 100 Euler papers

  13. Rechenkunst • in German • Christian Siebeneicher’s site • www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~sieben/euler/rechenkunst.html

  14. Gallica • http://gallica.bnf.fr • Bibliothèque National du France • Over 70,000 digital documents • ten random volumes of the Opera Omnia, • I.2, I.7, I.8, I.17, I.18, I.20, I.21, II.1, II.2, III.1 • two of Euler’s papers • French and Latin editions of the Introductio

  15. The Euler Society • www.EulerSociety.org • annual conferences • Part of MathFest 2007 • San Jose, CA, August 3-5

  16. Eulerama • 2007 celebrations begin at JMM in New Orleans • Short course • MAA tour of St. Pete, Berlin, Basel • BBAW events in Berlin • Euler Society 2007

  17. Learning Latin • "Latin is easy."

  18. Hurdles to Latin • "Help" doesn't always help much • textbooks are about Romans • Latin teachers tell you "puncta" means "prompt"

  19. "Mathematical Latin is easy" • written for a second-language audience • limited vocabulary and grammar

  20. Hints • Use your context • Pretend it's English • works well for nouns and adjectives • Pretend it's French (or Spanish) • works well for verbs and pronouns • Study some Latin • Wheelock • Google - Latin language lessons • pronouns

  21. Dive right in • You only have to read. • No writing, speaking or listening • Impress your friends!

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