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The official account for the Euler Archive. Check out our companion journal, Euleriana: http://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/euleriana/
Euleriana accepts submissions (including translations, historical and archival notes, and book reviews) on a rolling basis—check out our website for more information.
Euleriana
Euleriana, an open access eJournal focused on Leonhard Euler and Euler-related scholarship.
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September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Finally, we are excited to start a new column: How Euler Could Have Done It. In the first installment, frequent contributor Alexander Aycock explores how Euler’s work in analytic number theory could have been assembled into a direct proof of the
functional equation for the Riemann zeta-function.
How Euler Could Have Done It: Euler and a direct proof for the functional equation for the Riemann zeta-function
We present a chain of argumentation for a direct proof of the functional equation for the Riemann ζ–function that Euler could have presented.
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September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
In our Articles & Notes section, Shigeki Matsutani examines Euler's original derivation for the elastica equation, in which we see how Euler anticipated Emmy Noether's theorem on the translational symmetry of elastica.
Euler’s Original Derivation of Elastica Equation
Euler derived the differential equations of elastica by the variational method in 1744, but his original derivation has never been properly interpreted or explained in terms of modern mathematics. We ...
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September 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Sylvio Bistafa presents an article-translation for "Dilucidationes de resistentia fluidorum" (E276) where Euler critiques Newton and d'Alembert's fluid resistance theories. After surveying the key contributions of this work, Bistafa gives a translation produced in conversation with ChatGPT.
Early theories on fluid resistance and translation of Euler’s “Dilucidationes de resistentia fluidorum”
In 1763, Euler published Dilucidationes de resistentia fluidorum (Explanations on the resistance of fluids), a memoir that challenges the fluid resistance theories proposed by Isaac Newton and d’Alemb...
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September 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
In Julian Schennach's translation of Euler’s "Subsidium calculi sinuum" (E246), Euler uses de Moivre's formula to derive a collection of trigonometric identities and infinite series expressions.
Assistance for the Calculation of Sines (Translation of E246)
Paralleling his famous relation eiφ = cos(φ) + i sin(φ), Euler establishes the equality (cos φ + i sin φ)n = (cos nφ + i sin nφ). He uses it to comprehensively derive trigonometric identities that con...
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September 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Jonathan David Evans presents a translation of Euler's sizable 1750 paper "De numeris amicabilibus" (E152), in which Euler introduces the sum-of-divisors function and uses it to find around 60 new pairs of amicable numbers.
On Amicable Numbers
This is an English translation of Euler's 1750 paper "De numeris amicabilibus" (E152), the most substantial of his three works with this name. In it, he expounds at great length the ad hoc methods he ...
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September 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
In Stacy Langton's translation of "Observationes de seriebus" we find a young Daniel Bernoulli developing a theory of linear recurrence relations to solve polynomial equations numerically and prove an early form of De Moivre's Theorem.
Daniel Bernoulli's "Observations concerning Recurrent Series"
Daniel Bernoulli’s article "Observations concerning Recurrrent Series" is one of the gems of the mathematical literature. It describes a numerical method for solving polynomial equations. This method,...
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September 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM