Euler as physicist /
Dieter Suisky.
- Berlin : Springer, c2009.
- xxiii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-324) and index.
The predecessors : Descartes, Newton and Leibniz -- Newton and Leibniz on time, space and forces -- Newton and Leibniz on the foundation of the calculus -- Euler's program for mechanics -- The foundation of the calculus -- Euler's early relativistic theory -- Euler's Wirksamkeit, Helmholtz's treatment of evergy law and beyond -- Euler's mechanics and Schrödinger's quantum mechanics.