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090			_aQA28 _b.T46 2009
092			_a510.922494 _bT313
100	1		_aTent, M. B. W. _q(Margaret B. W.), _d1944-
245	1	0	_aLeonhard Euler and the Bernoullis _h[electronic resource] : _bmathematicians from Basel / _cM.B.W. Tent.
260			_aNatick, Mass. : _bA.K. Peters, _cc2009.
300			_axix, 276 p. : _bill.
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_a1. The Bernoullis as Huguenots -- 2. The Bernoulli family in Frankfurt and then Basel -- 3. Jacob makes his first steps in the study of mathematics -- 4. His little brother Johann 'helps' Jacob with mathematics -- 5. Having completed his studies in philosophy and theology, Jacob moves on -- 6. Jacob travels to Geneva and meets Elizabeth Waldkirch and her family -- 7. Jacob teaches Elizabeth Waldkirch to read and write numbers and words -- 8. Sundials, and tutoring in France -- 9. Jacob meets with mathematicians in Paris -- 10. Jacob travels to Holland and England -- 11. Jacob settles into life in Basel to lecture and learn -- 12. Leibniz's calculus vs. Newton's fluxions -- 13. Johann Bernoulli grows up -- 14. Two curves studied by the Bernoullis : the isochrone and the catenary -- 15. More mathematical challenges from the Bernoullis -- 16. Jacob Bernoulli's mathematics -- 17. Johann Bernoulli returns to Basel with his family -- 18. Johann Bernoulli's son Daniel grows up -- 19. Daniel Bernoulli, the Paris prize, and the longitude problem -- 20. Leonhard Euler -- 21. Leonhard Euler's early education -- 22. Leonhard Euler goes to the Latin school in Basel and then on to the university -- 23. Daniel and Nicolaus Bernoulli receive a call to the academy at St. Petersburg -- 24. The Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg -- 25. Euler begins his career and moves to St. Petersburg -- 26. Daniel Bernoulli and Leonhard Euler : an active scientific partnership -- 27. The St. Petersburg paradox -- 28. Euler's early work in St. Petersburg -- 29. Daniel returns to Basel, and Leonhard Euler becomes professor of mathematics at St. Petersburg -- 30. Daniel Bernhoulli : a famous scholar -- 31. Leonhard Euler : admired professor at St. Petersburg -- 32. Euler becomes blind in his right eye -- 33. St. Petersburg loses Euler to Frederick the Great of Prussia -- 34. The Eulers arrive at the court of Frederick the Great in Berlin -- 35. Euler's scientific work in Berlin -- 36. Euler's work in number theory -- 37. Magic squares -- 38. Catherine the Great invites Euler to return to St. Petersburg -- 39. The Basel clan.
530			_aAlso available in print edition.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
600	1	0	_aEuler, Leonhard, _d1707-1783.
600	1	0	_aBernoulli, Jakob, _d1654-1705.
600	3	0	_aBernoulli family.
650		0	_aMathematicians _zSwitzerland _zBasel _vBiography.
650		0	_aMathematics _zSwitzerland _xHistory _y17th century.
650		0	_aMathematics _zSwitzerland _xHistory _y18th century.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2lcsh
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856	4	0	_uhttp://marc.crcnetbase.com/isbn/9781439865484 _qapplication/PDF _zDistributed by publisher. Purchase or institutional license may be required for access.
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