Frobenius, Cartan, and the problem of Pfaff (Q1781899)

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Frobenius, Cartan, and the problem of Pfaff
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    9 June 2005
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    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.
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