Article ID: CBB000064812

Dirichlet and his role in the founding of mathematical physics (1987)

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Description Mathematical physics in its present sense, encompassing the mathematical treatment of optics, heat, electricity and magnetism, meteorology, gas dynamics, and aether, emerged in France between 1800 and 1815.


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Authors & Contributors
Schubring, Gert
Kjeldsen, Tinne Hoff
Michele Castelnovi
Doron, Claude-Olivier
Zilles, Hubert
Wyatt, John F.
Journals
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Historia Mathematica
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science
Geostorie, Bolletino e Notiziario del Centro Italiano per gli Studi Storico-Geografici
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Studies in the History of Modern Mathematics: Supplemento di Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo
Publishers
Akademie-Verlag
Teubner
Oosthoek, Scheltema, & Holkema
Edwin Mellen Press
Concepts
Mathematics
Maps; atlases
Science and literature
Functions (mathematics)
Mathematics education
Historiography
People
Dirichlet, Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune
Tolkein, John Ronald Reuel (J.R.R.)
Felix Voisin
Weierstrass, Karl Theodor
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Wordsworth, William
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
France
Ireland
Great Britain
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