The missing link: Riemann's ``Commentatio, differential geometry and tensor analysis

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(90)90002-UzbMath0743.01017OpenAlexW1983022642WikidataQ115363636 ScholiaQ115363636MaRDI QIDQ1814003

Christopher Knee, Ruth S. Farwell

Publication date: 25 June 1992

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(90)90002-u

zbMATH Keywords

heat transferdifferential geometrytensor analysis19th century

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects in vector and tensor analysis (53A45) Vector and tensor algebra, theory of invariants (15A72) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of classical thermodynamics (80-03)

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• A brief report on a number of recently discovered sets of notes on Riemann's lectures and on the transmission of the Riemann ``Nachlaß
• Interview with Dirk Jan Struik
• Die Geschichte der Differentialgeometrie von Gauß\ bis Riemann (1828--1868)
• The Growth of Mathematics: Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association, January 1957
• Outline of a History of Differential Geometry: I
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