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

DOI10.1007/S11229-012-0069-ZzbMATH Open1274.01035OpenAlexW2044747879MaRDI QIDQ375282FDOQ375282

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

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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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• William Wallace's chorograph (1839): a rare mathematical instrument
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• Alfred Clebsch's ``geometrical clothing of the theory of the quintic equation
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