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Jeremy Gray

Change and Variations

A History of Differential Equations to 1900

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This book presents a history of differential equations, both ordinary and partial, as well as the calculus of variations, from the origins of the subjects to around 1900. Topics treated include the wave equation in the hands of d'Alembert and Euler; Fourier's solutions to the heat equation and the contribution of Kovalevskaya; the work of Euler, Gauss, Kummer, Riemann, and Poincaré on the hypergeometric equation; Green's functions, the Dirichlet principle, and Schwarz's solution of the Dirichlet problem; minimal surfaces; the telegraphists' equation and Thomson's successful design of the trans-Atlantic cable; Riemann's paper on shock waves; t… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-3-030-70575-6
  • EAN: 9783030705756
  • Produktnummer: 36917978
  • Verlag: Springer International Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 419 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 6'612 KB
  • Auflage: 1st ed. 2021

Über den Autor


Jeremy Gray is an Emeritus Professor at the Open University and an Honorary Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. He is an Inaugural Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and for his work in the history of mathematics he was a recipient in 2009 of the AMS's Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize, and in 2016 of the Otto Neugebauer Prize of the European Mathematical Society. He is the author or co-author of 13 books on the subject, including Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics (2008), Henri Poincaré: a scientific biography (2012), and three books on the history of algebra, analysis, and geometry on the 19th century.

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