This video explores one of Leonhard Euler’s most elegant ideas, showing how factorials can be used to connect π, square roots, and one-half in a surprising and beautiful way. Through clear ...

“Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don’t know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.” —Benjamin ...

Leonhard Euler, a Swiss mathematician who continued to work on complex equations from memory even after he went blind, is honored in Monday’s Google Doodle on the 306th anniversary of his birth. Euler ...

Google today celebrates 306th birth anniversary of Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler with an interactive doodle on its home page. Leonhard Euler (15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) is considered ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We study a q-logarithm which was introduced by Euler and give some of its properties. This q-logarithm has not received much attention in the ...

Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 67, No. 5 (September 2013), pp. 477-551 (75 pages) The analysis of unpublished manuscripts and of the published textbook on mechanics written between about ...