Interactions between mechanics and differential geometry in the \(19^{th}\) century

DOI10.1007/BF00374699zbMath0834.01007WikidataQ56506420 ScholiaQ56506420MaRDI QIDQ1897790

Jesper Luetzen

Publication date: 18 October 1995

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

zbMATH Keywords

trajectories; geodesics; Lipschitz; optics; principle of least action; \(n\)-dimensional geometry; non-Euclidean dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A55: History of mathematics in the 19th century

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