Historical evolution of the concept of homotopic paths

DOI10.1007/BF00374251MaRDI QIDQ1205992zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ria Vanden Eynde

Publication date 1 April 1993

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00374251

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic geometrycalculus of variationsCauchyPoincaréRiemannTietze

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60)

Review text

The title gives a clear indication of the contents of this paper. The author finds prefigurations of the concept of homotopy in the calculus of variations, the works of Cauchy on integration, and of course in Riemann's thesis. The roots of this concept in algebraic geometry (expansion of algebraic functions about branch points and analytic continuation of such functions) are explored in detail. The topological distillation of the concept occupies the main portion of the paper, with particular attention to the papers of Poincaré, Tietze, and others.

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