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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
Rare and expensive
Opera Omnia
coming out since 1915
80 volumes in 4 series
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
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
East Germany – 1960’s
Euler-Goldbach letters
3 volumes of other correspondence
Registres of the Berlin Academy
two Festschriften (1957, 1983)
In English
Euler: The Master of Us All
– available from the MAA
AMS – Varajaradan
MAA – four books in 2007
Elsevier – Bradley/Sandifer
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)
On Line
The Euler Archive
www.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 translations
More 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 publications
Miscellanea Berolinensia
Histoire 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.htm
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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
The Euler Society
www.EulerSociety.org
annual conferences
Part of MathFest 2007
– San Jose, CA, August 3-5
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
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
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
Dive right in
You only have to read.
No writing, speaking or listening
Impress your friends!