Ed Sandifer's Preprint Page
The preprints here represent works in various stages of progress, far enough along that I (or we) would appreciate help and comments, but not far enough along that they should be circulated "officially".
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Text of my talk at E2K+5 Euler Society meeting on the two articles on series that Euler wrote in the 1760's. .pdf format
Text of my talk at CSHPM in Waterloo in June, 2005, in which I compare Euler's five mathematics textbooks with each other and with their reputations. .pdf format.
Text of my talk at the E2K+4 Euler Society meeting, in which I pose 23 (or 24) questions about Euler. You can also see just the transparencies here.
Text of my talk at E2K+3 in which I describe Euler's grand plan for mechanics. This paper elicited vigorous audience response, in which they convinced me that I grade him too harshly. True to academic pace, I haven't changed the paper to reflect his new grade. You can also see just the transparencies here.
.pdf of a talk at Rowan University, March 10, 2005 on Euler's four proofs of the Euler-Fermat theorem
Unpublished paper written with Bruce Burdick about E-72, Variae observationes circa series infinitas.
Paper to accompany my talk at Jurij Vega Days, March 20-25, 2004, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Transparencies for my talk at Jurij Vega Days, March 20-25, 2004, Ljubljana, Slovenia
"Long" abstract for my talk at Jurij Vega Days, March 20-25, 2004, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Resources from the Minicourse with Bill Dunham at the Joint National Meetings in Phoenix, January 7 and 9, 2004
Transparencies for the talk on Harmonic Analysers from the Short Course on the Material Culture of Mathematics, Joint National Meetings, January 5, 2004
November 22, 2003, transparencies (in .pdf format) of the talk "Euler goes beyond Isosceles." Presented to the NES/MAA meeting at Wellesley
April 13, 2003, transparencies and a paper (both in .pdf format) about Euler's three other solutions to the Basel problem. Presented at AMS meeting at NYU.
January 16, 2003. Military themes in Spanish colonial mathematics. Transparencies from the talk at the Joint Meetings in Baltimore. .pdf format.
February 28, 2002. Euler discovers integrating factors so we can all learn about them in differential equations.
January, 2002. Euler and the Greatest Homework Ever? Transparencies from the talk in San Diego. .pdf format.
December 26, 2001. Preliminary draft of a synopsis of E-28, Euler's first paper on the arc length of an ellipse.
Transparencies for the talk "Euler's Early Series and Products" I gave at Wellesley on November 5, 2001
Transparencies for the talk "Some of Euler's Early Series" I gave at Dartmouth on October 25, 2001.
Transparencies for the talk "Euler and the Gamma Function" I gave at Williams on October 13, 2001.
De linea brevissima
September, 2001. 5 (single spaced) pages in .pdf format about Euler's first work in calculus of variations. This was his first published work in mathematics, and he did it as a homework assignment for Johann Bernoulli.
Spanish colonial mathematics: a window on the past
August, 2001. 12 pages in .pdf format, about 7 mathematics books published in the Spanish American colonies before 1700. As near as I can tell, this is the only account of the content of these books in English.
Breve aritmetica, 1675
August, 2001. 30 pages, 2 pages at a time, in .pdf format, linked from a page of commentary, about the 9th Spanish colonial mathematics book.
Pat Allaire and Rob Bradley's paper on Duncan Gregory. 38 pages in .pdf format.
Created September 4, 2001. Last modified 16
November 2003.
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