The spirited horse, the engineer, and the mathematician: water waves in nineteenth-century hydrodynamics

DOI10.1007/s00407-003-0070-5zbMath1046.01007OpenAlexW2014255380MaRDI QIDQ1421053

Olivier Darrigol

Publication date: 19 February 2004

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-003-0070-5

zbMATH Keywords

hydrodynamicswater wavesmathematical physics19th centuryGeorge B. AiryJohn Scott Russellnaval engineering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of fluid mechanics (76-03) History of partial differential equations (35-03)

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