13th May 2014, 6:00pm
Euler: 300 years on, Robin Wilson (Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London)
Joint British Society for the History of Mathematics and IMA Meeting
Abstract
Euler was the most prolific mathematician of all time – but what did he do? In this talk we survey his life in Basel, St Petersburg and Berlin and outline some of the contributions he made to the many areas in which he worked – from the very pure to the very applied.
Venue: Room E32, John Dalton Building, Oxford Road, Manchester Metropolitan University
No charge is made to attend meetings and non-members are welcome.
