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Revision as of 19:30, 25 April 2013 by Epicgenius (talk | contribs) (Epicgenius moved page List of things named after Leonhard Euler to List of Leonhard Euler's namesakes: clearer title, less vague)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)In mathematics and physics, there are a large number of topics named in honor of Leonhard Euler, many of which include their own unique function, equation, formula, identity, number (single or sequence), or other mathematical entity. Unfortunately, many of these entities have been given simple and ambiguous names such as Euler's function, Euler's equation, and Euler's formula.
Euler's work touched upon so many fields that he is often the earliest written reference on a given matter. Physicists and mathematicians sometimes jest that, in an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, discoveries and theorems are named after the "first person after Euler to discover it".
Euler's conjectures
(Also see Euler's conjecture.)
Euler's equations
- Euler's equation – usually refers to Euler's equations (rigid body dynamics), Euler's formula, Euler's homogeneous function theorem, or Euler's identity
- Euler equations (fluid dynamics) in fluid dynamics.
- Euler's equations (rigid body dynamics), concerning the rotations of a rigid body.
- Euler–Bernoulli beam equation, concerning the elasticity of structural beams.
- Euler–Cauchy equation (or Euler equation), a second-order linear differential equation
- Euler–Lagrange equation (in regard to minimization problems in calculus of variations)
- Euler–Lotka equation (mathematical demography)
- Euler–Poisson–Darboux equation
- Euler's pump and turbine equation
- Euler–Tricomi equation – concerns transonic flow
- Euler transform used to accelerate the convergence of an alternating series and is also frequently applied to the hypergeometric series
Euler's formulas
- Euler's formula e = cos x + i sin x in complex analysis.
- Euler's formula for planar graphs or polyhedra: v − e + f = 2
- Euler's formula for the critical load of a column:
- Euler's continued fraction formula
- Euler product formula for the Riemann zeta function.
- Euler–Maclaurin formula (Euler's summation formula) – relation between integrals and sums
- Euler–Rodrigues formulas concern Euler–Rodrigues parameters and 3D rotation matrices
Euler's functions
- The Euler function, a modular form that is a prototypical q-series.
- Euler's homogeneous function theorem
- Euler's totient function (or Euler phi (φ) function) in number theory, counting the number of coprime integers less than an integer.
- Euler hypergeometric integral
Euler's identities
- Euler's identity e + 1 = 0.
- Euler's four-square identity, which shows that the product of two sums of four squares can itself be expressed as the sum of four squares.
- Euler's identity may also refer to the pentagonal number theorem.
Euler's numbers
- Euler's number, e ≈ 2.71828, the base of the natural logarithm, also known as Napier's constant.
- Euler's idoneal numbers
- Euler numbers are an integer sequence.
- Eulerian numbers are another integer sequence.
- Euler number (physics), the cavitation number in fluid dynamics.
- Euler number (topology) – now, Euler characteristic
- Lucky numbers of Euler
- Euler–Mascheroni constant
- Eulerian integers are the numbers of form a + bω where ω is a complex cube root of 1.
Euler's theorems
- Euler's homogeneous function theorem, a theorem about homogeneous polynomials.
- Euler's infinite tetration theorem
- Euler's rotation theorem
- Euler's theorem (differential geometry) on the existence of the principal curvatures of a surface and orthogonality of the associated principal directions.
- Euler's theorem in geometry, relating the circumcircle and incircle of a triangle.
- Euclid–Euler theorem
- Euler–Fermat theorem, that a ≡ 1 (mod m) whenever a is coprime to m, and φ is Euler's totient function
- Euler's theorem equating the number of partitions with odd parts and the number of partitions with distinct parts. See Glaisher's theorem.
- Euler's adding-up theorem in economics
Euler's laws
Main article: Euler's 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 named after Euler
- 2002 Euler (a minor planet)
- AMS Euler typeface
- Euler (software)
- Euler acceleration or force
- Euler Book Prize
- Euler Medal, a prize for research in combinatorics
- Euler programming language
- Euler–Fokker genus
- Project Euler
Topics by field of study
Selected topics from above, grouped by subject.
Analysis: derivatives, integrals, and logarithms
- Euler approximation – (see Euler's method)
- Euler derivative (as opposed to Lagrangian derivative)
- The Euler integrals of the first and second kind, namely the beta function and gamma function.
- The Euler method, a method for finding numerical solutions of differential equations
- Euler's number e ≈ 2.71828, the base of the natural logarithm, also known as Napier's constant.
- The Euler substitutions for integrals involving a square root.
- Euler's summation formula, a theorem about integrals.
- Cauchy–Euler equation (or Euler equation), a second-order linear differential equation
- Euler–Maclaurin formula – relation between integrals and sums
- Euler–Mascheroni constant or Euler's constant γ ≈ 0.577216
Geometry and spatial arrangement
- Euler angles defining a rotation in space.
- Euler brick
- Euler's line – relation between triangle centers
- Euler operator – set of functions to create polygon meshes
- Euler's rotation theorem
- Euler squares, usually called Graeco-Latin squares.
- Euler's theorem in geometry, relating the circumcircle and incircle of a triangle.
- Euler–Rodrigues formulas concern Euler–Rodrigues parameters and 3D rotation matrices
Graph theory
- Euler characteristic (formerly called Euler number) in algebraic topology and topological graph theory, and the corresponding Euler's formula
- Eulerian circuit, Euler cycle or Eulerian path – a path through a graph that takes each edge once
- Eulerian graph has all its vertices spanned by an Eulerian path
- Euler class
- Euler diagram – likely better (but wrongly) known as Venn diagrams, its subclass
- Euler tour technique
Music
Number theory
- Euler's criterion – quadratic residues modulo by primes
- Euler product – infinite product expansion, indexed by prime numbers of a Dirichlet series
- Euler pseudoprime
- Euler's totient function (or Euler phi (φ) function) in number theory, counting the number of coprime integers less than an integer.
Physical systems
- Euler's Disk – a toy consisting of a circular disk that spins, without slipping, on a surface
- Euler equations in fluid dynamics.
- Euler's equations, concerning the rotations of a rigid body.
- 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–Tricomi equation – concerns transonic flow
Polynomials
- Euler's homogeneous function theorem, a theorem about homogeneous polynomials.
- Euler polynomials
- Euler spline – composed of classical Euler polynomial arcs
See also
Notes
- David S. Richeson (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
- C. H. Edwards; David E. Penney (2004), Differential equations and boundary value problems :, 清华大学出版社, p. 443, ISBN 978-7-302-09978-9