Frobenius, Cartan, and the problem of Pfaff
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Frobenius, Cartan, and the problem of Pfaff
zbMATH Open document ID: 1078.01013
author: Thomas Hawkins
published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences
publication date: 2005-06-09T00:00:00Z
review text: The author studies deeply the problem of Pfaff and its origins in the theory of first-order partial differential equations, the contributions of Jacobi, Clebsch, Kronecker, Frobenius's integrability theorem, Darboux's theorem and Cartan's calculus of differential forms.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35-03
zbMATH DE Number: 2174555
reviewed by: Bernard Rouxel
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: s00407-004-0095-4
OpenAlex ID: W2008491609
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DOI: 10.1007/S00407-004-0095-4
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2174555