List of things named after Leonhard Euler

In mathematics and physics, many topics are named in honor of Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), who made many important discoveries and innovations. Many of these items named after Euler include their own unique function, equation, formula, identity, number (single or sequence), or other mathematical entity. Many of these entities have been given simple and ambiguous names such as Euler's function, Euler's equation, and Euler's formula.

Leonhard Euler (1707–1783)

Euler's work touched upon so many fields that he is often the earliest written reference on a given matter. In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.[1][2]

Conjectures

Equations

Usually, Euler's equation refers to one of (or a set of) differential equations (DEs). It is customary to classify them into ODEs and PDEs.

Otherwise, Euler's equation may refer to a non-differential equation, as in these three cases:

Ordinary differential equations

Partial differential equations

Formulas

Functions

Identities

Numbers

  • Euler's number, e = 2.71828..., the base of the natural logarithm
  • Euler's idoneal numbers, a set of 65 or possibly 66 or 67 integers with special properties
  • Euler numbers – Integers occurring in the coefficients of the Taylor series of 1/cosh t
  • Eulerian numbers count certain types of permutations.
  • Euler number (physics), the cavitation number in fluid dynamics.
  • Euler number (algebraic topology) – now, Euler characteristic, classically the number of vertices minus edges plus faces of a polyhedron.
  • Euler number (3-manifold topology) – see Seifert fiber space
  • Lucky numbers of Euler
  • Euler's constant gamma (γ), also known as the Euler–Mascheroni constant
  • Eulerian integers, more commonly called Eisenstein integers, the algebraic integers of form a + where ω is a complex cube root of 1.
  • Euler–Gompertz constant

Theorems

Laws

  • Euler's first law, the linear momentum of a body is equal to the product of the mass of the body and the velocity of its center of mass.
  • Euler's second law, the sum of the external moments about a point is equal to the rate of change of angular momentum about that point.

Other things

  • 2002 Euler (a minor planet)
  • Euler (crater)
  • AMS Euler typeface
  • Euler (software)
  • Euler Book Prize
  • Euler Lecture, an annual lecture at the University of Potsdam
  • Euler Medal, a prize for research in combinatorics
  • Leonhard Euler Gold Medal, a prize for outstanding results in mathematics and physics
  • Euler programming language
  • Euler Society, an American group dedicated to the life and work of Leonhard Euler
  • Euler Committee of the Swiss Academy of Sciences
  • Euler–Fokker genus
  • Project Euler
  • Leonhard Euler Telescope
  • Rue Euler (a street in Paris, France)[3]
  • EulerOS, a CentOS Linux based operating system
  • French submarine Euler
  • Euler square
  • Euler top

Topics by field of study

Selected topics from above, grouped by subject, and additional topics from the fields of music and physical systems

Analysis: derivatives, integrals, and logarithms

Geometry and spatial arrangement

Graph theory

Music

  • Euler–Fokker genus
  • Euler's tritone

Number theory

Physical systems

  • Euler's Disk – a toy consisting of a circular disk that spins, without slipping, on a surface
  • Euler rotation equations, in rigid body dynamics.
  • Euler conservation equations in fluid dynamics.
  • Euler number (physics), the cavitation number in fluid dynamics.
  • Euler's three-body problem
  • Euler–Bernoulli beam equation, concerning the elasticity of structural beams.
  • Euler formula in calculating the buckling load of columns.
  • Euler–Lagrange equation
  • Euler–Tricomi equation – concerns transonic flow
  • Euler relations – Gives relationship between extensive variables in thermodynamics.
  • Eulerian observer – An observer "at rest" in spacetime, i.e. with 4-velocity perpendicular to spatial hypersurfaces.[4]
  • Relativistic Euler equations
  • Euler top
  • Newton–Euler equations
  • d'Alembert–Euler condition
  • Euler acceleration or force

Polynomials

See also

Notes

  1. Richeson, David S. (2008). Euler's Gem: The polyhedron formula and the birth of topology (illustrated ed.). Princeton University Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-691-12677-7.
  2. Edwards, Charles Henry; Penney, David E.; Calvis, David (2008). Differential equations and boundary value problems. Pearson Prentice Hall. pp. 443 (微分方程及边值问题, 2004 edition). ISBN 978-0-13-156107-6.
  3. de Rochegude, Félix (1910). Promenades dans toutes les rues de Paris [Walks along all of the streets in Paris] (VIIIe arrondissement ed.). Hachette. p. 98.
  4. Evans, Charles R.; Smarr, Larry L.; Wilson, James R. (1986). "Numerical Relativistic Gravitational Collapse with Spatial Time Slices". Astrophysical Radiation Hydrodynamics. Vol. 188. pp. 491–529. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-4754-2_15. ISBN 978-94-010-8612-7. Retrieved March 27, 2021.
  5. Schoenberg (1973). "bibliography" (PDF). University of Wisconsin. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-22. Retrieved 2007-10-28.
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