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| Preliminary remarks | xi | |
| Prologue | xiii | |
| 1 | Basel 1707-1727 | 1 |
| Leonhard Euler's autobiography | 1 | |
| Euler's genealogy | 7 | |
| The parents | 9 | |
| Childhood and youth | 11 | |
| The time in Basel until 1727 | 14 | |
| 2 | The first Petersburg period 1727-1741 | 23 |
| The establishment of the Academy of Petersburg | 23 | |
| Euler's call - Journey to Russia | 27 | |
| The first scholars at the Academy of Petersburg | 32 | |
| Euler's first years in the tsardom | 37 | |
| First principal works | 42 | |
| Farewell from Petersburg | 55 | |
| 3 | The Berlin period 1741-1766 | 59 |
| New beginning in Frederick's Prussia | 59 | |
| Euler's first activities in Berlin | 62 | |
| Other major works | 65 | |
| Chess | 77 | |
| The great Trio | 81 | |
| Optics | 94 | |
| Pater familias | 99 | |
| Break with Frederick — Goodbye Berlin | 106 | |
| 4 | The second Petersburg period 1766-1783 | 115 |
| Firmly in the saddle | 115 | |
| The "Algebra for beginners" | 120 | |
| Astronomy* | 122 | |
| G. K. Mikhailov: The discord about Leonhard Euler's second | ||
| marriage | 124 | |
| The end | 129 | |
| Epilogue | 135 | |
| Translators' Notes | 140 | |
| Notes | 141 | |
| Chronological table | 155 | |
| Bibliography | 159 | |
| 1. | Abbreviations used throughout | 159 |
| 2. | Bibliographies | 159 |
| 3. | Works | 160 |
| 4. | Edition of correspondences | 161 |
| 5. | Memorial publications and omnibus volumes (selection) | 162 |
| 6. | Biographies (without dictionary-articles) | 162 |
| 7. | Secondary literature | 163 |
| Index of names | 173 | |
| About the author | 177 | |
| Sources for the illustrations | 179 | |
Ackeret, Jakob, 45
Alembert, Jean le Rond d', 98, 106 f, 112,
122, 137
Anna Ivanovna, Tsarina 32, 56
Archimedes, 86
Argens, Jean Baptiste de Boyer, 75
August Wilhelm, brother of Frederick II, 92
Baudan, Charles de 63
Bauer, General, 126
Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb, 75
Bayer, Gottlieb Siegfried, 34
Bell, Carl von, 125
Benedetti, Giovanni 67
Bering, Vitus, 34
Berkeley, George, 74
Bernoulli, Daniel, 3f, 6, 14, 17, 26 f, 31,
35, 39, 59, 67, 75, 99, 107
Bernoulli, Daniel II, 17
Bernoulli, Jakob I, xiii, 1, 5, 10, 12, 17,
20, 43, 65
Bernoulli, Jakob II, 17
Bernoulli, Johann I, xiii, 2, 5, 13 f, 17, 20, 27 f, 32, 50 f, 59 f, 65, 67,ff, 84, 117
Bernoulli, Johann II, 17, 59 f, 83, 89 ff Bernoulli, Johann III, 17, 117, 119 f Bernoulli, Niklaus, "the older", 17
Bernoulli, Niklaus, "the painter", 17
Bernoulli, Niklaus I, 10, 17
Bernoulli, Niklaus II, 3, 6, 17, 26 f, 33
Bernoulli, Niklaus t.y., 17
Bernoulli, René, 40
Biot, Jean-Baptiste, 96
Blumentrost, Laurentius, 27, 36
Bolzano, Beernard, 138
Borcke, Eleanor von, 87
Borcke, Friedrich Wilhelm von, 87
Bosshart, Beatrice, 54 f Bouguer, Pierre, 20, 85
Brand, Bernhard, 9
Bratteler, Rosa, 132
Brevem, Karl von, 57
Brucker, Johann Georg, 40
Brucker, Johann Heinrich, 9
Brucker, Margaretha - see Euler, Mar- garetha
Brucker-Faber, Maria Magdalena, 1, 14
Bülfinger, Georg Bernhard, 4, 31, 33, 36 f
Burckhardt, Johannes, 14
Burya, Abel, 131
Busch, Hermann Richard, 48
Buxtorf, Johannes, 9
Camus, Charles-Étienne-Louis, 20, 85
Cantor, Georg, 138
Cassini, Gian Domenico 85
Castillon, Frédéric, 110
Castillon, Jean (Gian Francesco Salver-
mini), 111
Catherine I, Tsarina, 3, 26 f, 31
Catherine II, Tsarina, 106, 115, 116, 119,
130
Catt, Henri Alexandre de, 112
Cauchy, Augustin Louis, 45, 138
Celsius, Anders 85
Châtelet, Émile du, 81
Chernishev, Count, 102
Clairaut, 85, 89, 98, 104, 122, 137
Clairaut, Alexis-Claude, 84, 123
Columbus, Christoph, 86
Condorcet, M.-J.-A., Nicolas Caritat de,
131
Curione, Celio Secondo, 9
Dashkova, Yekaterina Romanovna, 130
Delen, Jakob van, 104, 111, 125
Delisle (De l'Isle), Joseph-Nicolas, 34
Descartes, René, 16 f, 48, 85
Diderot, Denis, 107, 137
Dolgorukaya, Anastasia, 32
Dolgoruki, Vladimir Sergeyevich, 115
Dollond, John, 96 f
Domashnev, Sergey Gerasimovich, 129 f Duvernoy (Duvernoi), Johann Georg, 33
Einstein, Albert, xiv
Elisa veta Petrovna, Tsarina, 56, 99
Euclid, 121
Euler, Alexander, 9
Euler, Anna Maria (sister), 10
Euler, Anna Maria (grandmother), 9
Euler, Charlotte (daughter), 105, 110,
116, 125-128
Euler, Christoph (son), 63, 104, 112, 115
Euler, Hans-Georg (great-grandfather), 7, 9
Euler, Johann Albrecht (son), 39, 59, 93, 103-105, 111, 112, 115, 118, 119, 125-129, 131, 136
Euler, Johann Heinrich (brother), 10, 14,
59, 111
Euler, Karl, 7, 115
Euler, Karl Johann (son), 59, 105, 112,
125-128, 136
Euler, Katharina (first wife), 7, 39 f, 56,
59, 101, 117, 118, 125
Euler, Katharina Helene (daughter), 63,
105, 116, 125-128
Euler, Margaretha (mother), 1, 5, 10, 40, 59 f, 101
Euler, Maria Magdalena (sister), 10
Euler, Paulus, 1, 5, 14, 40, 59 f Euler, Paulus (father), 9-14
Euler, Paulus (grandfather), 9
Euler, Salome Abigail (second wife), 117, 126
Fontaine, Alexis, 137
Formey, Jean-Henri Samuel, 119, 124
Frederick II, King of Prussia, xv, 7, 55, 59, 61, 67 f, 81-93, 99, 106-113, 119
Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg, as
Frederick I, King of Prussia, 61
Frederick Wilhelm I, King of Prusia, 61
Fuss, Nikolaus, 6f f, 119, 41, 124, 128, 131
Galilei, Galileo, xiv, 67, 96
Gassner, Anna Maria, see Anna Maria Eu- ler
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 98, 136
Gmelin, Johann Georg (father and son), 34 f
Godin, Louis, 85
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 55, 73, 95, 135
Goldbach, Christian, 27, 34, 41, 36, 57, 62 f, 72, 77 f, 81, 90, 94, 99 f, 104, 107
Golovin, Mikhail Evseyevich, 119
Graff, Marie, see Gsell, Marie Gregory, James, 95, 96
Grimm, Peter, 57
Gross, Christian Friedrich, 33
Gsell, Georg, 10, 39
Gsell, Katharina, see Euler, Katharina Gsell, Marie, 126
Gsell, Salome Abigail, see Euler, Salome Abigail
Haecks, Rittmeister, 128
Hagemeister, Anna Charlotte Sophie, 104
Hall, ehester Moor, 97
Haller, Albrecht von, 33
Harnack, Adolf, 74, 81
Harriot, Thomas, 96
Heinrich, brother of Frederick II, 119
Helvétius, Claude Adrien, 110
Hermann, Jakob, 4, 26 f, 31 ff 33, 36, 37, 43
Herschel, William, 98, 131
Hill, George William, 124
Hooke, Robert, 96
Hume, David, 74
Huygens, Christian, 67, 96
Ivan VI, Tsar, 56
Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob, 66, 123, 137
Jaenish, Carl Friedrich, 79, 80
Jaucourt, Louis de, 110
Jurin, James, 67
Jussieu, Adrien Henri Laurent de, 85
Kant, Immanuel, 75
Karl Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, 33
Karl XII, King of Sweden, 23
Karsten, Wenzeslaus Johann Gustav, 107, 111
Kästner, Abraham Gotthelf, 136
Keill, John, 67, 71
Kepler, Johannes, 55
Kirnberger, Johann Philipp, 48
Klingenstierna, Samuel, 96
Koehler, David, 111
König, Johann Samuel, 17, 84, 89
Korff, Johann Albrecht, 39
Kovalevskaya, Sofia, 45
Krafft, Georg Wolfgang, 34, 39
Kulibin, Ivan Petrovich, 129
La Condamine, Charles-Marie de, 85, 88
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis de, 45, 65, 106,
110, 112, 121, 137
Lambert, Johann Heinrich, 98, 108 f, 111
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de 75
Lange, 80
Laplace, Pierre-Simon de, 46, 96, 136
Laugwitz, Detlef, 138
Le Monnier, Louis-Guilleaume, 85
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von, xiii, xv, 18, 23, 25, 36, 48, 61, 68, 74, 89, 135
Leutmann, Johann Georg, 34
Lexell, Anders Johan, 131
Lomonosov, Mikhail Vassilyevich, 32, 133
Louis XV, King of France, 84
Maclaurin, Colin, 44, 67
Mardefeld, Axel von, 58 f, 90
Maria Theresia, Empress, 86
Martini, Christian, 31
Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de, 62,
81-92, 100, 102, 106, 137
Mayer, Friedrich Christoph, 33
Mayer, Tobias, 123
Menshikov, Aleksander Danilovich, 32
Merian, Maria Sibylla, 39
Merian, Matthäus, 39
Mersenne, Marin, 48
Metzen, Frau, 126
Michelangelo (Buonarotti), 86
Mikhailov, Gleb Konstantinovich, 43, 124
Montesquieu, Charles de, 87
Montgolfier, Étienne and Joseph, 131
Müller, Frau, 126
Müller, Gerhard Friedrich, 34, 35, 56, 90, 107, 109
Münnich, Burkhardt Christoph von, 39, 56
Nartov, Andrey Andreyevich, 37f, 99
Newton, Sir Isaac xiiif, 16-18, 36, 43, 44, 67, 68, 72, 75, 85, 95-97, 122
Orlov, Grigori Grigoryevich, 115
Orlov, Vladimir Grigoryevich, 57, 115, 129
Ostermann, Heinrich Johann Friedrich
(Andrey Ivanovich), 56 f Outhier, Réginald, 85
Paccassi, Johann von, 71
Peter I (the Great), Tsar, 23-27, 32, 34
Peter II, Tsar, 32
Pfaff, Emanuel, 53
Philidor, François André Danican, 78
Plato, 73
Poincaré, Henri, 123
Raith, Michael, 9
Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 48
Rasumovski, Kirill Grigoryevich, 63, 100, 115, 129
Respinger, Leonhard, 11
Riehl, Alois, 75
Riemann, Bernhard, 136
Ritter, Johann Jakob, 17
Robins, Benjamin, 67 ff Rudolph, Christoph, 1, 5
Ruf, Heinrich, xiv
Schmieden, Carl, 138
Schumacher, Johann Daniel, 32, 35, 57,
99, 129
Segner, Johann Andreas, 104
Sokolov, Vassiii, 40
Sophie Charlotte, Princess of Brandenburg-Schwedt, 73
Speiser, Andreas, 73-75, 135, 138
Spiess, Otto, 36, 74 f, 132
Stählin, Jakob, 131
Stanislaus II August Poniatowski, King of
Poland, 113
Stieda, Wilhelm, 130
Stifel, Michael, 1, 5, 14
Strong, Theodore, 137
Suhm, Ulrich Friedrich von, 82
Sulzer, Johann Georg, 110
Swift, Jonathan, xiii
Tartaglia, Nicolo, 67
Taylor, Brooke, 67, 71
Telemann, George Philipp, 135
Teplov, Gregori Nikolayevich, 63, 106
Thiébault, Dieudonné, xv Timerding, Heinrich Emil, 75
Toussaint, François-Vincent, 110
Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques, 67
Vergil, xv Vogel, Martin, 48
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de, 75, 81-83, 85, 86, 88, 89, 93, 135
Weierstrass, Karl, 45, 138
Weitbrecht, Josias, 33
Werckmeister, Andreas, 48, 52, 54
Wettstein, Johann Kaspar, 100 f Winter, Eduard, 36, 56, 90, 135
Wolff, Christian, xv, 26 f, 30-33, 36, 74,
75, 82, 110
Woronzov, Mikhail, 111, 115
Young, Thomas, 96
Yushkevich, Adolf Pavlovich, 135
