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Euler's explorations of extremal ellipses
Leonhard Euler, Jonathan David Evans
In the 1770s, Euler wrote a series of papers (E563, E691 and E692) about finding the ellipse with minimal area or perimeter in the family of all ellipses passing through a fixed se…
Translation of "Simplizialzerlegungen von Beschrankter Flachheit'' by Hans Freudenthal, Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, Volume 43, Number 3, July 1942, Pages 580-583
Mathijs Wintraecken
Translation of the paper ``Simplizialzerlegungen von Beschrankter Flachheit'' by Hans Freudenthal (https://doi.org/10.2307/1968813), in which Freudenthal answers ``a question by Br…
Investigation of the solution of a system of partial differential equations with periodic coefficients
Alfred Potier, Edward Kuester
This is an English translation of a paper by the French physicist Alfred Potier (1840-1905) that originally appeared 150 years ago [A. Potier, ``Recherches sur l'intégration d'un s…
Institutiones calculi differentialis cum eius usu in analysi finitorum ac doctrina serierum
Leonhard Euler, Alexander Aycock
This is the translation of Euler's Latin textbook Institutiones calculi differentialis cum eius usu in analysi finitorum ac doctrina serierum (second volume) into English.
English and Spanish Translation of Zwicky's (1933) The Redshift of Extragalactic Nebulae
Heinz Andernach, Fritz Zwicky
English and Spanish translations are provided for Fritz Zwicky's seminal article on "The Redshift of Extragalactic Nebulae", published in German in Helvetica Physica Acta in 1933 <…
Max Dehn, un mathématicien aux préoccupations universelles
G. Burde, W. Schwarz, J. Wolfart +1
This is a free summary of a much longer article published in german in "Forschung Frankfurt". This article presents facts concerning the works of Max Dehn and the history of Frankf…