E64 -- Leonhardus Eulerus mathematicus acutissimus ad auctorem

(Leonhard Euler, most sagacious mathematician, to the author)

Summary: This work is a portion of a letter written by Euler to Johann Bernoulli (dated 18 October 1740), and appears as the frontispiece to Bernoulli's Hydraulica. An English translation is available as part of Carmody and Kobus's combined translation of Daniel Bernoulli's Hydrodynamica and Johann Bernoulli's Hydraulica. A translation of the next portion of the letter is available in Hunter Rouse's preface to the work (p. X).

Publication:

Originally published in Johann Bernoulli, Opera omnia 4, Lausanne and Geneva 1742 [foreword dated March 1, 1743], p. 389.
Opera Omnia: Series 2, Volume 12, p. 1

Documents Available:

Original publication: E64

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