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fluid mechanics
Euler derived all the terms in this equation except the one on the left-hand side proportional to (η/ρ), and without that term the equation is known as the Euler equation. The whole is called the Navier-Stokes equation.isoperimetric problem
...and classified many curves having maximum or minimum properties. A major step in generalization was taken by the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, who published the rule (1744) later known as Euler’s differential equation, useful in the determination of a minimizing arc between two points on a curve having continuous second derivatives and second partial derivatives. His work was soon...