Geometry and analysis in Euler's integral calculus

DOI10.1007/s00407-016-0179-yzbMath1360.01021MaRDI QIDQ504100

Maria Rosaria Enea, Giovanni Capobianco, Giovanni Ferraro

Publication date: 25 January 2017

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-016-0179-y

zbMATH Keywords

differential equations; 18th-century integral calculus; geometric representation of definite integrals; infinite integrals as handled by Euler

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A50: History of mathematics in the 18th century

34-03: History of ordinary differential equations

01A90: Bibliographic studies

45-03: History of integral equations

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