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Euleriana Volume 1 Issue 2 Article 1 2021 Sharing Contributions to Euler Scholarship Erik R. Tou University of Washington – Tacoma, etou@uw.edu Christopher Goff University of the Pacific, cgoff@pacific.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/euleriana  Part of the Mathematics Commons Recommended Citation Tou, Erik R. and Goff, Christopher (2021) "Sharing Contributions to Euler Scholarship," Euleriana: 1(2), p. 157, Article 1. Available at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/euleriana/vol1/iss2/1 This From The Editors is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Euleriana by an authorized editor of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact mgibney@pacific.edu. Sharing Contributions to Euler ScholarshipChristopher Goffcgoff@pacific.eduErik R. Touetou@uw.eduAugust 2021The history of mathematics has always been a human endeavor. Today,many scholars from many different backgrounds are making valuable contribu-tions to our understanding of the past. In the field of Eulerian scholarship, C.Edward Sandifer has served an indispensable role. His work has been public-facing, especially including his How Euler Did It column, and also behind-the-scenes, serving as a catalyst for the creation of the Euler Archive. In the Articlesand Notes section, we highlight several of Dr. Sandifer’s contributions to ourunderstanding of Euler’s life and work. Robert Bradley brings us an overviewof his work in the history of mathematics, while Cynthia Huffman details thoseworks currently available via the Euler Archive. Both illuminate the unique im-print that Dr. Sandifer has made on Eulerian scholarship.Also included in the Articles and Notes section are William Dunham’s in-sights into Euler’s work in infinite series. In “Euler’s Miracle,” Dr. Dunhamexplores how Euler applied his unique talents to an alternating harmonic se-ries, with the infinite series leading to an infinite product and—at least a littlesurprisingly—to the number π.In the Reviews section, Lawrence D’Antonio gives his reflections on volume1 of A History of Mathematics in the United States and Canada (1492-1900),published by the Mathematical Association of America. This important workwas written by math historian David Zitarelli just before his passing in 2018.This issue highlights three of Euler’s publications in the Translations &Commentary section. First, Sylvio R. Bistafa describes Euler’s work on thethree body problem, including finding three of the so-called “Lagrange points.”Bistafa also includes a translation of the original article. Next, Alexander Ay-cock describes some of Euler’s results around evaluating a certain integral, and157Tou and Goff: Sharing Contributions to Euler ScholarshipPublished by Scholarly Commons, 2021demonstrates their equivalence to the so called multiplication formula for thegamma function. Aycock also includes a translation of Euler’s little-known ar-ticle on the subject. The third translation is provided by Sam Gallagher andcovers the Lambert W function, a special function that can be used to solvecertain transcendental equations. Gallagher translates the original article andincludes helpful explanatory notes as well.We hope that you enjoy reading our second issue. If you have ideas orarticles to submit for subsequent issues, please let us know; we are alwaysaccepting submissions. The next issue is scheduled to appear in winter 2022!158Euleriana, Vol. 1 [2021], Iss. 2, Art. 1https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/euleriana/vol1/iss2/1

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