English Title
On the vibration of strings
Enestrom Number
140
Fuss Index
520
Original Language
French
Archive Notes
A translation of selections of E140 is published in D. J. Struik's A Source Book in Mathematics, 1200-1800 (Harvard University Press, 1969), pp. 357-359. Struik's book also includes a partial translation of E213 and several papers of Bernoulli and D'Alembert, in a survey of the the vibrating string problem.
Published as
Journal article
Published Date
1750
Written Date
1748
Original Source Citation
Mémoires de l'académie des sciences de Berlin, Volume 4, pp. 69-85.
Opera Omnia Citation
Series 2, Volume 10, pp.63-77.
Record Created
2018-09-25
E140en.pdf (726 kB)
E140en.pdf (726 kB)