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21How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Euler and the Pirates April 2009 We sometimes celebrate the first of April with a column on the lighter side of Euler scholarship. We continue that occasional tradition with some stories i

How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Euler and the Pirates April 2009 We sometimes celebrate the first of April with a column on the lighter side of Euler scholarship. We continue that occasional tradition with some stories i

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22How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer A memorable example of false induction August 2005 Euler wrote about 800 books and papers. An exact number is hard to define. The “official” number of entries in Eneström’s index is

How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer A memorable example of false induction August 2005 Euler wrote about 800 books and papers. An exact number is hard to define. The “official” number of entries in Eneström’s index is

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23How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer PDEs of fluids September 2008 For his whole life Euler was interested in fluids and fluid mechanics, especially their applications to shipbuilding and navigation. He first wrote on fluid m

How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer PDEs of fluids September 2008 For his whole life Euler was interested in fluids and fluid mechanics, especially their applications to shipbuilding and navigation. He first wrote on fluid m

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24How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer A false logarithm series DecemberSolving a good research question should open more doors than it closes. One of Euler’s lesser

How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer A false logarithm series DecemberSolving a good research question should open more doors than it closes. One of Euler’s lesser

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25How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Rational trigonometry March 2008 Triangles are one of the most basic objects in mathematics. We have been studying them for thousands of years, and the study of triangles, Trigonometry, is

How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Rational trigonometry March 2008 Triangles are one of the most basic objects in mathematics. We have been studying them for thousands of years, and the study of triangles, Trigonometry, is

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26How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer A Mystery about the Law of Cosines December, 2004 The Law of Cosines has been in newspapers and magazines lately. Perhaps you have seen an advertisement that reads “Margaret needs to kno

How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer A Mystery about the Law of Cosines December, 2004 The Law of Cosines has been in newspapers and magazines lately. Perhaps you have seen an advertisement that reads “Margaret needs to kno

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27How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Saws and modeling November 2008 Euler seemed to be interested in everything, and when he was interested in something, he sought to understand it with mathematics. Somehow, he got intereste

How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Saws and modeling November 2008 Euler seemed to be interested in everything, and when he was interested in something, he sought to understand it with mathematics. Somehow, he got intereste

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    28How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Estimating the Basel Problem December, 2003 In the lives of famous people, we can often identify the first thing they did that made them famous. For Thomas Edison, it was probably his inve

    How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Estimating the Basel Problem December, 2003 In the lives of famous people, we can often identify the first thing they did that made them famous. For Thomas Edison, it was probably his inve

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    29How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Multi-zeta functions January 2008 Two of Euler’s best known and most influential discoveries involve what we now call the Riemann zeta function. The first of these discoveries made him f

    How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Multi-zeta functions January 2008 Two of Euler’s best known and most influential discoveries involve what we now call the Riemann zeta function. The first of these discoveries made him f

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    30How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Orthogonal matrices August 2006 Jeff Miller’s excellent site [M] “Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics” reports:

    How Euler Did It by Ed Sandifer Orthogonal matrices August 2006 Jeff Miller’s excellent site [M] “Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics” reports:

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