Kirchhoff's theory for optical diffraction, its predecessor and subsequent development: the resilience of an inconsistent theory

DOI10.1007/S00407-016-0176-1MaRDI QIDQ332274zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jed Z. Buchwald, Chen-Pang Yeang

Publication date 28 October 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-016-0176-1

zbMATH Keywords

optical diffractionphilosophy of science

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Wave equation (35L05) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) History of partial differential equations (35-03) History of optics and electromagnetic theory (78-03)

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