Two Autograph Letters In Latin From Euler To James Stirling Dated St Petersburg 8 June 1736 And 27

by Leonhard Euler James Stirling

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St Petersburg & Edinburgh: 1736 & 1738. / An extraordinary mathematical correspondence of the greatest scientific importance. In the first letter, Euler states the Euler–Maclaurin summation formula — rediscovered later and independently by Maclaurin — together with his solution to the Basel Problem, ∑ 1/n2 = π2/6, four years before its appearance in print. In the second, Euler extends the summation formula and offers several

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