Gedenkband des Kantons Basel-Stadt. With contributions from 30 famous scholars over the world. Euler was not only by far the most productive mathematician in the history of mankind, but also one of the greatest scholars of all time. He attained, like only a few scholars, a degree of popularity and fame which may well be compared with that of Galilei, Newton, or Einstein. Moreover he was a cosmopolitan in the truest sense of the word; he lived during his first twent years in Basel, was active altogether for more than thirty years in Petersburg and for a quarter of a century in Berlin. His ideas turned the mathematical world on its head. He calculated the currents of liquids, the moment of inertia, developed the calculus of variations and the modern number theory. Original blue publishers cloth with dustjacket and title in white on spine. Frontisiece in colour. Reference: // Mathematics / Algebra / Physics / Astronomy / Science