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 BerlinArchives in Berlin, St. Petersburg and

Moscow1 or 2 new letters discovered each yearLatin, French, German and RussianRare and expensive

Opera Omnia

coming out since 191580 volumes in 4 series

Opera Omnia

Series I – Mathematics – 29 volumesSeries II – Mechanics and Astronomy – 31

volumesSeries III – Optics, sound, miscellaneous –

12 volumesSeries IV – Letters and notebooks –

projected to be 12 volumes of letters, 4 out

Opera Omnia

Birkhauser, 160 Euros/volume72 volumes in Series I-III for 14000 EurosMostly in Latin (80%) with introductions

in German

In many libraries

East Germany – 1960’s

Euler-Goldbach letters3 volumes of other correspondenceRegistres of the Berlin Academytwo Festschriften (1957, 1983)

In English

Euler: The Master of Us All– available from the MAA

AMS – VarajaradanMAA – four books in 2007Elsevier – Bradley/Sandifer

In Translation

John Blanton’s Introductio (2 vol) and Calculus Differentialis (first part only)

AlgebraLetters to a German PrincessKonigsburg Bridge ProblemContinued FractionsArtillery (very rare)Maneuvering of Ships (very, very rare)

On Line

The Euler Archivewww.EulerArchive.org

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

The Euler Archive

Tables of Contents for the Commentarii Links to translationsMore useful stuff is to come.“With the Euler Archive, we hope to move

18th century scholarship into the 21st Century.”

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

www.bbaw.de, www.bbaw.de/pub/historisch.html

early serial publicationsMiscellanea BerolinensiaHistoire de l'Académie Royale des

Sciences et Belles Lettres.(over 100 Euler papers

Rechenkunst

in German Christian Siebeneicher’s site www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/

~sieben/euler/rechenkunst.html

Gallica

http://gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque National du FranceOver 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 papersFrench and Latin editions of the Introductio

The Euler Society

www.EulerSociety.organnual conferences Part of MathFest 2007

– San Jose, CA, August 3-5

Eulerama

2007 celebrations begin at JMM in New Orleans

Short courseMAA tour of St. Pete, Berlin, BaselBBAW events in BerlinEuler Society 2007

Learning Latin

"Latin is easy."

Hurdles to Latin

"Help" doesn't always help much textbooks are about Romans Latin teachers tell you "puncta" means

"prompt"

"Mathematical Latin is easy"

written for a second-language audience limited vocabulary and grammar

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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

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