On the development of symbolic calculus in the last third of the 19th century (Q2713220)

This article gives a survey of the development of symbolic methods in differential equations in the late nineteenth century. The article is divided by countries and covers, among others, the work of the Russians Vashchenko-Zakharchenko, Letnikov, Nekrasov, and Sonin, the Germans Schlömilch, Grelle, and Frobenius, the Italians Cazzaniga, Pincherle, Amaldi, and the British Spottiswoode, (William) Russell, and Gleisher.