The history of differential forms from Clairaut to Poincaré

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(81)90027-6zbMath0462.01010OpenAlexW2089826777MaRDI QIDQ1153125

Victor J. Katz

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(81)90027-6

zbMATH Keywords

surface integralmultiply-connectedline integralClairautPoincare

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of real functions (26-03) History of functions of a complex variable (30-03) History of global analysis (58-03)

Related Items (5)

Reflections on the history of topology ⋮ Frobenius, Cartan, and the problem of Pfaff ⋮ Poincaré's stated motivations for topology ⋮ Differential forms -- Cartan to De Rham ⋮ J. L. Lagrange's changing approach to the foundations of the calculus of variations

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• A history of the divergence theorem
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