Euler method
Método de Euler
- Date
- 1768-1770 · confidence high
- Place
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Credited to
- Leonhard Euler
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
In his treatise "Institutionum calculi integralis", Euler set out the most basic numerical procedure for solving initial-value differential equations: advancing in small steps along the tangent line to the solution at each point.
What it led to
- Predictor-corrector methods
- Runge-Kutta methods
- Linear multistep methods and modern numerical computation