Diagrams in the theory of differential equations (eighteenth to nineteenth centuries)

DOI10.1007/S11229-012-0069-ZMaRDI QIDQ375282zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dominique Tournès

Publication date 29 October 2013

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://hal.univ-reunion.fr/hal-01186149/file/tournes_2012a_synthese_186.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

diagramdifferential equationintegral curvegeometric intuitiongraphical integrationqualitative integrationtractional motionvisual thinking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of ordinary differential equations (34-03)

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