E339 -- Sur le mouvement d'un corde, que au commencement n'a ete ebranlee que dans un partie

(On the motion of a string which at the start has only been struck only in one area)

Summary:

According to C. G. J. Jacobi, a treatise with this title was presented to the Berlin Academy on July 18, 1765.

Publication:

Originally published in Memoires de l'academie des sciences de Berlin 21, 1767, pp. 307-334
Opera Omnia: Series 2, Volume 10, pp. 426 - 451

Documents Available:

Original publication: E339
E339 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.
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 E339 include:
- 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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