English Title
Letter of Mr. Euler to Mr. de la Grange
Enestrom Number
268
Fuss Index
507
Original Language
French
Content Summary
This is a thorough abstract of the second of Euler's two great memoirs on the theory of sound. It served to establish his priority in the "discovery and publication of the material description for the motion of a continuum, in which the initial coordinates X, Y, and Z of the particles are taken, along with time, as independent variables." He shows that the complete history of the motion of the continuum is given by the functional equations x = f(X, Y, Z, t), y = g(X, Y, Z, t), z = h(X, Y, Z, t). (Based on Clifford Truesdell's introduction to Opera Omnia Series II, Volume 12.)
Published as
Published letter
Published Date
1762
Written Date
1760
Original Source Citation
Mélanges de philosophie et de la mathématique de la société royale de Turin, Volume 2, pp. 1-10.
Opera Omnia Citation
Series 2, Volume 10, pp.255-263.
Record Created
2018-09-25
