E168 -- De la controverse entre Mrs. Leibniz et Bernoulli sur les logarithmes des nombres negatifs et imaginaires
(On the contraversy between Mssrs. Leibniz and Bernoulli concerning logarithms of negative and imaginary numbers)
Summary:
According to C. G. J. Jacobi, a new edition of this
treatise (see 1862, E807), was presented to the Berlin Academy on September 7, 1747.
Publication:
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Originally published in Memoires de l'academie des sciences de Berlin 5, 1751, pp. 139-179
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Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 17, pp. 195 - 232
Documents Available:
- Original publication: E168
- E168 can be viewed or downloaded from Digitalisierte Akademieschriften und Schriften zur Geschichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, which includes serial publications of the Prussian Academy of Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
- English translation (Stacy Langton): E168
- The Euler Archive attempts to monitor current scholarship for articles and books that may be of interest to Euler Scholars. Selected references we have found that discuss or cite E168 include:
- Calinger R., “Leonhard Euler: The first St Petersburg years (1727-1741).” Historia Mathematica, 23 (2), pp. 121-166 (May 1996).
- Fraser CG., “The calculus as algebraic analysis - some observations on mathematical-analysis in the 18th-century.” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 39 (4), pp. 317-335 (1989).
- Lutzen J., “Euler vision of a general partial-differential calculus for a generalized kind of functions.” Mathematics Magazine, 56 (5), pp. 299-306 (1983).
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