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11How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Philip Naudé’s problem October, 2005 In the days before email, mathematics journals, MathFest, MAA Online and annual Joint Mathematics Meetings, mathematicians had far fewer ways to com

How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Philip Naudé’s problem October, 2005 In the days before email, mathematics journals, MathFest, MAA Online and annual Joint Mathematics Meetings, mathematicians had far fewer ways to com

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    12How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Cannonball curves December 2006 “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” – Yogi Berra also attributed to Chuck Reid, Jan L. A. van de Sne

    How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Cannonball curves December 2006 “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” – Yogi Berra also attributed to Chuck Reid, Jan L. A. van de Sne

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      13How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer V, E and F, Part 2 July, 2004 Last month, we began to examine Euler’s two papers on the general properties of polyhedra, often cited as the pioneering work on the subject and one of the

      How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer V, E and F, Part 2 July, 2004 Last month, we began to examine Euler’s two papers on the general properties of polyhedra, often cited as the pioneering work on the subject and one of the

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        14How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Bernoulli numbers September 2005 As we learned in last month’s column, in the 1760’s Euler wrote only two articles on series. There was E-326, a paper on the so-called central trinomia

        How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Bernoulli numbers September 2005 As we learned in last month’s column, in the 1760’s Euler wrote only two articles on series. There was E-326, a paper on the so-called central trinomia

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          15How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Wallis’s formula November 2004 Besides everything else he did, Euler was the best mathematics textbook writer of his age, with a line of texts that extended from arithmetic to advanced c

          How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Wallis’s formula November 2004 Besides everything else he did, Euler was the best mathematics textbook writer of his age, with a line of texts that extended from arithmetic to advanced c

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            16How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Formal Sums and Products July 2006 Two weeks ago at our MAA Section meeting, George Andrews gave a nice talk about the delicate and beautiful relations among infinite sums, infinite produc

            How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Formal Sums and Products July 2006 Two weeks ago at our MAA Section meeting, George Andrews gave a nice talk about the delicate and beautiful relations among infinite sums, infinite produc

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            17How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Fallible Euler February 2008 By now, regular readers of this column might have come to believe that, except for occasional computational errors beyond the 15th decimal place, and except fo

            How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Fallible Euler February 2008 By now, regular readers of this column might have come to believe that, except for occasional computational errors beyond the 15th decimal place, and except fo

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            18How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Knight’s Tour April 2006 It is sometimes difficult to imagine that Euler had a social life, but it is not surprising that he could find mathematics in what other people did for fun. He b

            How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Knight’s Tour April 2006 It is sometimes difficult to imagine that Euler had a social life, but it is not surprising that he could find mathematics in what other people did for fun. He b

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            19How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Curves and paradox October 2008 In the two centuries between Descartesand Dirichlet), the mathematics of curves gradually shifted from the study of the means by whi

            How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Curves and paradox October 2008 In the two centuries between Descartesand Dirichlet), the mathematics of curves gradually shifted from the study of the means by whi

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            20How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Roots by Recursion June 2005 Euler’s great work of 1748, Introductio in analysin infinitorum, is one of the world’s truly great mathematics books. It was one of the first important boo

            How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Roots by Recursion June 2005 Euler’s great work of 1748, Introductio in analysin infinitorum, is one of the world’s truly great mathematics books. It was one of the first important boo

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