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Euler as Physicist

Dieter Suisky (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XXIV, 338 Seiten

2008 | 2009
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-74863-2 (ISBN)

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In this book the exceptional role of Leonhard Euler in the history of science will be analyzed and emphasized, especially demonstrated for his fundamental cont- butions to physics. Although Euler is famous as the leading mathematician of the 18th century his contributions to physics are as important and rich of new methods and solutions. There are many books devoted to Euler as mathematician, but not as physicist. In the past decade, special attention had been directed at the development of science in the 18th century. In three distinguished tercentenary celebrations in - casion of the births of Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759), Emilie du Chatelet (1706-1749) and Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) the merits of these scholars for the development of the post-Newtonian science had been highly acknowledged. These events were not only most welcome to remember an essential period in the past, but are also an opportunity to ask for the long lasting in uence on the further development of science until present days.

The Predecessors: Descartes, Newton and Leibniz.- Newton and Leibniz on Time, Space and Forces.- Newton and Leibniz on the Foundation of the Calculus.- Euler's Program for Mechanics.- The Foundation of the Calculus.- Euler's Early Relativistic Theory.- Euler's Wirksamkeit, Helmholtz's Treatment of Energy Law and Beyond.- Euler's Mechanics and Schrödinger's Quantum Mechanics.

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"A leading mathematician of the 18th century, Leonhard Euler made innovative contributions to mechanics that laid the foundations of mathematical physics that are still in use today. ... In this work written for professionals in the physical sciences, Suisky ... lays out the details of simultaneous 18th-century advances in both mechanics and mathematics, with some later chapters devoted to 19th- and 20th-century applications. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers, faculty, and professionals." (F. Potter, Choice, Vol. 46 (11), August, 2009)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.12.2008
Zusatzinfo	XXIV, 338 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	672 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
Schlagworte	Calculus • classical mechanics • Euler • Euler, Leonhard • Foundation of classical mechanics • Hermann von Helmholtz • Isaac Newton • Mathematics • Mechanics • Physics
ISBN-10	3-540-74863-6 / 3540748636
ISBN-13	978-3-540-74863-2 / 9783540748632
Zustand	Neuware