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The Euler Lecture (Euler-Vorlesung in Sanssouci) is a mathematics lecture given at an annual event at the University of Potsdam (Universität Potsdam).The event, initiated in 1993, [1] is organized by the Universität Potsdam, Institut for Mathematik, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Mathematik, and the Berliner Mathematische Gesellschaft [] with the assistance of several ...
Leonhard Euler (/ ˈ ɔɪ l ər / OY-lər; [b] German: [ˈleːɔnhaʁt ˈʔɔʏlɐ] ⓘ, Swiss Standard German: [ˈleɔnhard ˈɔʏlər]; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician, and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in many other branches of ...
In 2005 Purkert gave the historical lecture Felix Hausdorff - Mathematiker, Philosoph und Literat, which was part of the events accompanying the Euler Lecture. [6] He was elected in 2007 a corresponding member of the Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences, Paris and in 2015 a member of the Bernoulli-Euler-Gesellschaft [], Basel.
Euler's great interest in number theory can be traced to the influence of his friend in the St. Peterburg Academy, Christian Goldbach. A lot of his early work on number theory was based on the works of Pierre de Fermat, and developed some of Fermat's ideas. One focus of Euler's work was to link the nature of prime distribution with ideas in ...
In 1736, Leonhard Euler published a proof of Fermat's little theorem [1] (stated by Fermat without proof), which is the restriction of Euler's theorem to the case where n is a prime number. Subsequently, Euler presented other proofs of the theorem, culminating with his paper of 1763, in which he proved a generalization to the case where n is ...
A page from Hamilton's Lectures on Logic; the symbols A, E, I, and O refer to four types of categorical statement which can occur in a syllogism (see descriptions, left) The small text to the left erroneously says: "The first employment of circular diagrams in logic improperly ascribed to Euler.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange was influenced by Euler's work to contribute significantly to the theory. After Euler saw the 1755 work of the 19-year-old Lagrange, Euler dropped his own partly geometric approach in favor of Lagrange's purely analytic approach and renamed the subject the calculus of variations in his 1756 lecture Elementa Calculi ...
Leonhard Euler investigated them and associated polynomials in his 1755 book Institutiones calculi differentialis. The polynomials presently known as Eulerian polynomials in Euler's work from 1755, Institutiones calculi differentialis, part 2, p. 485/6. The coefficients of these polynomials are known as Eulerian numbers.