Pi Mu Epsilon Undergraduate Colloquium
On known and less known relations of Euler with Poland
Friday, May 1, 2015 · 12 - 1 PM
Speaker: | Dr. Roman Sznajder Department of Mathematics Bowie State University |
Title: |
On known and less known relations of Leonhard Euler with Poland |
Abstract
Leonhard Euler was working for the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (Russia) and Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin during various periods of his life. It is not a popular knowledge about Euler's contacts with Polish scientists of his era and Poland in general. The aim of this talk is to shed some light on this relationship – mainly with the researchers from the city of Gdańsk (formerly Danzig). As a matter of fact, the famous Königsberg Bridges Problem, arguably the beginning of the graph theory and topology, originated in Gdańsk.