Article ID: CBB000076910

The origin of the method of steepest descent (1997)

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Description “We show that the method dates back to Cauchy and that, 25 years before Debye, the Russian mathematician Pavel Alexeevich Nekrasov had already used this technique and extended it to more general cases.”


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Authors & Contributors
Kilakos, Dimitris
Soloviev, A. D.
Sheynin, Oscar B.
Sheinin, O. B.
Seneta, E.
Buckingham, Paul A.
Journals
Michigan Academician: Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters
Istoriko-Matematicheskie Issledovaniia
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Almagest
Concepts
Mathematics
Probability and statistics
Mathematical analysis
Mechanics
Science and religion
Algebra
People
Nekrasov, Pavel Alekseevich
Chuprov, Aleksandr Ivanovich
Chebyshev, Pafnutii Lvovich
Bugaev, Nikolai Vasil'evich
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Russia
Soviet Union
Institutions
Moskovskoe Matematicheskoe Obshchestvo
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