Joseph Louis Lagrange's algebraic vision of the calculus

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(87)90002-4zbMath0617.01012MaRDI QIDQ1821766

Craig G. Fraser

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)90002-4

zbMATH Keywords

variational calculus; ordinary differential equations; analytical theorems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A50: History of mathematics in the 18th century

34-03: History of ordinary differential equations

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Cites Work

• J. L. Lagrange's changing approach to the foundations of the calculus of variations
• Brook Taylor and the method of increments
• Lagrange's early contributions to the theory of first-order partial differential equations
• Euler's Vision of a General Partial Differential Calculus for a Generalized Kind of Function
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