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This is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707-83), one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of all time. In this comprehensive and authoritative account, Ronald Calinger connects the story of Euler's eventful life to the astonishing achievements that place him in the company of Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss. Drawing chiefly on Euler's massive published works and correspondence, which fill more than eighty volumes so far, this biography sets Euler's work in its multilayered context-personal, intellectual, institutional, political, cultural, religious, and social. It is a story of nearly incessant accomplishment, from Euler's fundamental contributions to almost every area of pure and applied mathematics-especially calculus, number theory, notation, optics, and celestial, rational, and fluid mechanics-to his advancements in shipbuilding, telescopes, ballistics, cartography, chronology, and music theory.The narrative takes the reader from Euler's childhood and education in Basel through his first period in St. Petersburg, 1727-41, where he gained a European reputation by solving the Basel problem and systematically developing analytical mechanics. Invited to Berlin by Frederick II, Euler published his famous Introductio in analysin infinitorum, devised continuum mechanics, and proposed a pulse theory of light. Returning to St. Petersburg in 1766, he created the analytical calculus of variations, developed the most precise lunar theory of the time that supported Newton's dynamics, and published the best-selling Letters to a German Princess-all despite eye problems that ended in near-total blindness. In telling the remarkable story of Euler and how his achievements brought pan-European distinction to the Petersburg and Berlin academies of sciences, the book also demonstrates with new depth and detail the central role of mathematics in the Enlightenment.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Euler, Leonhard --- Mathematicians --- Physical scientists --- Euler, Leonhard, --- Эйлер, Леонард, --- Ėĭler, Leonard, --- Euler, Leonard, --- Ou-la, --- Oula, --- Eulerus, Leonhardus, --- Eulerus, L., --- Euler, L. --- Physicists --- Mathematics --- Math --- Science --- Scientists --- History

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The rigorous mathematical theory of the Navier-Stokes and Euler equations has been a focus of intense activity in recent years. This volume, the product of a workshop in Venice in 2013, consolidates, surveys and further advances the study of these canonical equations. It consists of a number of reviews and a selection of more traditional research articles on topics that include classical solutions to the 2D Euler equation, modal dependency for the 3D Navier-Stokes equation, zero viscosity Boussinesq equations, global regularity and finite-time singularities, well-posedness for the diffusive Burgers equations, and probabilistic aspects of the Navier-Stokes equation. The result is an accessible summary of a wide range of active research topics written by leaders in their field, together with some exciting new results. The book serves both as a helpful overview for graduate students new to the area and as a useful resource for more established researchers.

Differential equations, Partial. --- Navier-Stokes equations. --- Lagrange equations. --- D'Alembert equation --- Equations, Euler-Lagrange --- Equations, Lagrange --- Euler-Lagrange equations --- Lagrangian equations --- Differential equations --- Equations of motion --- Equations, Navier-Stokes --- Differential equations, Partial --- Fluid dynamics --- Viscous flow --- Partial differential equations

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Rabinowitz's classical global bifurcation theory, which concerns the study in-the-large of parameter-dependent families of nonlinear equations, uses topological methods that address the problem of continuous parameter dependence of solutions by showing that there are connected sets of solutions of global extent. Even when the operators are infinitely differentiable in all the variables and parameters, connectedness here cannot in general be replaced by path-connectedness. However, in the context of real-analyticity there is an alternative theory of global bifurcation due to Dancer, which offers a much stronger notion of parameter dependence. This book aims to develop from first principles Dancer's global bifurcation theory for one-parameter families of real-analytic operators in Banach spaces. It shows that there are globally defined continuous and locally real-analytic curves of solutions. In particular, in the real-analytic setting, local analysis can lead to global consequences--for example, as explained in detail here, those resulting from bifurcation from a simple eigenvalue. Included are accounts of analyticity and implicit function theorems in Banach spaces, classical results from the theory of finite-dimensional analytic varieties, and the links between these two and global existence theory. Laying the foundations for more extensive studies of real-analyticity in infinite-dimensional problems and illustrating the theory with examples, Analytic Theory of Global Bifurcation is intended for graduate students and researchers in pure and applied analysis.

Differential geometry. Global analysis --- Bifurcation theory. --- Differential equations, Nonlinear --- Stability --- Numerical solutions --- Addition. --- Algebraic equation. --- Analytic function. --- Analytic manifold. --- Atmospheric pressure. --- Banach space. --- Bernhard Riemann. --- Bifurcation diagram. --- Boundary value problem. --- Bounded operator. --- Bounded set (topological vector space). --- Boundedness. --- Canonical form. --- Cartesian coordinate system. --- Codimension. --- Compact operator. --- Complex analysis. --- Complex conjugate. --- Complex number. --- Connected space. --- Coordinate system. --- Corollary. --- Curvature. --- Derivative. --- Diagram (category theory). --- Differentiable function. --- Differentiable manifold. --- Dimension (vector space). --- Dimension. --- Direct sum. --- Eigenvalues and eigenvectors. --- Elliptic integral. --- Embedding. --- Equation. --- Euclidean division. --- Euler equations (fluid dynamics). --- Existential quantification. --- First principle. --- Fredholm operator. --- Froude number. --- Functional analysis. --- Hilbert space. --- Homeomorphism. --- Implicit function theorem. --- Integer. --- Linear algebra. --- Linear function. --- Linear independence. --- Linear map. --- Linear programming. --- Linear space (geometry). --- Linear subspace. --- Linearity. --- Linearization. --- Metric space. --- Morse theory. --- Multilinear form. --- N0. --- Natural number. --- Neumann series. --- Nonlinear functional analysis. --- Nonlinear system. --- Numerical analysis. --- Open mapping theorem (complex analysis). --- Operator (physics). --- Ordinary differential equation. --- Parameter. --- Parametrization. --- Partial differential equation. --- Permutation group. --- Permutation. --- Polynomial. --- Power series. --- Prime number. --- Proportionality (mathematics). --- Pseudo-differential operator. --- Puiseux series. --- Quantity. --- Real number. --- Resultant. --- Singularity theory. --- Skew-symmetric matrix. --- Smoothness. --- Solution set. --- Special case. --- Standard basis. --- Sturm–Liouville theory. --- Subset. --- Symmetric bilinear form. --- Symmetric group. --- Taylor series. --- Taylor's theorem. --- Theorem. --- Total derivative. --- Two-dimensional space. --- Union (set theory). --- Variable (mathematics). --- Vector space. --- Zero of a function.