Mécanique et théorie des surfaces: les travaux de Sophie Germain. (Mechanics and the theory of surfaces: the works of Sophie Germain)

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(87)90066-8zbMath0631.01013MaRDI QIDQ1094397

Amy Dahan Dalmedico

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(87)90066-8

zbMATH Keywords

geometry; mechanics. Gauß

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A50: History of mathematics in the 18th century

53-03: History of differential geometry

70-03: History of mechanics of particles and systems

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