Frobenius, Cartan, and the problem of Pfaff

DOI10.1007/s00407-004-0095-4zbMath1078.01013MaRDI QIDQ1781899

Thomas Hawkins

Publication date: 9 June 2005

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-004-0095-4

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A55: History of mathematics in the 19th century

35-03: History of partial differential equations

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