BIB_ID
299368
Accession number
MA 3871.30
Creator
Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783.
Display Date
1748 May 3.
Credit line
Gift of H.P. Kraus, 1979.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.4 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from Euler to Maupertuis. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 3871 and MA 3872 for details.
Summary
Announcing his completion of a paper on the "minima"; noting that his conclusions agree with Maupertuis's principle of least action; proposing that the Academy offer a prize for a contribution on the subject; discussing the Academy sessions.
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