Alexis Fontaine's integration of ordinary differential equations and the origins of the calculus of several variables

DOI10.1080/00033798200200101zbMath0479.01005OpenAlexW2090762061WikidataQ58303303 ScholiaQ58303303MaRDI QIDQ3936687

John L. Greenberg

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Annals of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00033798200200101

zbMATH Keywords

families of curvesdifferential coefficientsfluxio-differential method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of ordinary differential equations (34-03)

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