Frobenius, Cartan, and the problem of Pfaff

DOI10.1007/S00407-004-0095-4MaRDI QIDQ1781899zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of partial differential equations (35-03)

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