Further reading - Euler's Corresondence

     Although the majority of Euler's correspondence remains unpublished, several volumes of his letters have appeared:

  • The Opera Omnia
    Once again, the Euler scholar should turn first to the Opera Omnia. Series IV., Volume 1 of the Opera Omnia is a comprehensive list of Euler's letters, describing every letter known and kept at the University of Basel. There is a brief (1-3 sentence) summary of each letter in the language in which they were orignally written.

    Also published are:
    • Volume 2, correspondence with Johann and Nicolaus Bernoulli
    • Volume 5, correspondence with Clairaut, d'Alembert, and Lagrange
    • Volume 6, correspondence with Maupertuis and Frederick II (Frederick the Great)
  • Die Berliner und die Petersburger Akademie der Wissenschaften im Briefwechsel Leonhard Eulers.
    This is a three-volume collection of Euler's correspondence sent between the Berlin and St. Petersburg Academies. Akademie-Verlag in Berlin, 1959, 1961, and 1976.
    • Volume 1 contains correspondence sent when Euler lived in Berlin, between Euler and Gerhard Friedrich Muller, the secretary of the Saint Petersburg Academy, from 1734-1767.
    • Volume 2 contains the correspondence of Euler with Nartov, Razumovskij, Schumacher, Teplov, and the Petersburg Academy, from 1730-1763.
    • Volume 3 contains correspondence between Euler and about 30 others, spanning his professional life.
  • Fuss, P H.  Correspondance mathématique et physique de quelques célèbres géomètres du XVIIIème siècle.  New York, 1968.
    This work by Fuss contains extensive correspondence between Euler, Goldbach, and Bernoulli, among others. The Euler Archive plans to add these letters to our collection in the near future.
  • Leonhard Euler und Christian Goldbach: briefwechsel 1729-1764.  Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1965.
    Published for the 250th anniversary of Euler's birth (two years early), this work contains the complete correspondence between Euler and Goldbach.
  • The Euler-Mayer Correspondence (1751-1755): A New Perspective on eighteenth-century advances in the lunar theory.  American Elsevier, 1971.
    In this book, Eric Forbes presents the 31 known letters that comprise the correspondence between Euler and Tobias Mayer, all (mercifully) translated into English, with commentary and notes.
  • Tweedle, Ian.  James Stirling: This about Series and Such Things.  Scottish Academic Press, 1988.
    Some of Euler's correspondence with Stirling is published in English translation in this book by Stirling.
  • Engelsman, Steven B.  Families of Curves and the Origins of Partial Differentiation.  Amsterdam: North Holland Mathematical Studies #93, 1984.
    Engelsman's book contains a manuscript of Euler's published in English and Latin.


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