TY - GEN digital ID - 131907749 TI - Mathematical Geography in the Eighteenth Century: Euler, Lagrange and Lambert AU - Caddeo, Renzo AU - Papadopoulos, Athanase PY - 2022 SN - 9783031095702 9783031095696 9783031095719 9783031095726 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Geometry KW - Mathematics KW - History KW - geschiedenis KW - wiskunde KW - geometrie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131907749 AB - This volume presents the beautiful memoirs of Euler, Lagrange and Lambert on geography, translated into English and put into perspective through explanatory and historical essays as well as commentaries and mathematical notes. These works had a major impact on the development of the differential geometry of surfaces and they deserve to be studied, not only as historical documents, but most of all as a rich source of ideas. ER -