The history of differential equations (Q1780854)

Contributions: -- Henk J. M. Bos, The role of the concept of construction in the transition from inverse tangent problems to differential equations p.2733 -- Clara Silvia Roero, Gabriele Manfredi's treatise \textit{De constructione aequationum differentialium primi gradus} (1707) p.2734 -- Dominique Tournres, Vincenzo Riccati's treatise on integration of differential equations by tractional motion (1752) p.2738 -- Christian Gilain, Équations différentielles et systèmes différentiels: de d'Alembert à Cauchy (Differential equations and differential systems: from d'Alembert to Cauchy) (French) p.2741 -- Giovanni Ferraro, Functions, series and integration of differential equations around 1800 p.2743 -- João Caramalho Domingues, A puzzling remark by Euler on constant differentials p.2745 -- Henrik Kragh Sørensen, Habituation and representation of elliptic functions in Abel's mathematics p.2748 -- Hans Niels Jahnke, Lagrange's series in early 19th-century analysis p.2750 -- Michiyo Nakane, Two historical stages of the Hamilton-Jacobi theory in the nineteenth century p.2753 -- Marco Panza, On some of Newton's methods for finitary quadratures (1664-1666) p.2756 -- Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Differential equations and linearity in the 19th and early 20th centuries: a short review p.2758 -- Jesper Lützen, Non-holonomic constraints from Lagrange via Hertz to Boltzmann p.2761 -- Curtis Wilson, 19th-century lunar theory p.2763 -- Ja Hyon Ku, Rayleigh's theory of sound and the rise of modern acoustics p.2765 -- Karl-Heinz Schlote, Potential theoretical investigations by Carl Neumann and the role of mathematical physics p.2767 -- Rossana Tazzioli, Green's functions and integral equations: some Italian contributions at the beginning of the 20th century p.2769 -- Erika Luciano, G. Peano and M. Gramegna on ordinary differential equations p.2771 -- Anne Robadey, A shift in the definition of stability: the Poincaré recurrence theorem p.2774 -- David E. Rowe, Differential equations as a Leitmotiv for Sophus Lie p.2775 -- Tilman Sauer, Beyond the gravitational field equations of general relativity: Einstein's search for world equations of a unified theory and the example of distant parallelism geometry p.2779 -- Jean Mawhin, The Brouwer fixed point theorem and differential equations: a nonlinear story p. 2782 -- Amy Dahan, From partial differential equations to theory of control: dynamics of research and social demands. The privileged example of Jacques-Louis Lions (1928--2001) p.2784 -- Barnabas M. Garay, On the Habilitation lecture of Lipót Fejér p.2786 -- David Aubin, The end of differential equations, or What can a mathematician do that a computer cannot? p.2788