Article ID: CBB000933173

D'Alembert et la notion de solution des équations différentielles aux dérivées partielles (2008)

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Demidov, Serghei S. (Author)


Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
Volume: 28
Pages: 155--166


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Proceedings from the conference “D'Alembert, i Lumi, l'Europa,” organized by the International Centre of Mathematical Research in Levico Terme in September 2006.
Language: French

In this paper we examine the question concerning the notion of solution of partial differential equations which arose during the famous discussion on the vibrating string especially in J. d'Alembert's works. Also, we present J. d'Alembert's and L. Euler's ideas as well as J. Lagrange's and P.-S. Laplace's contributions and also the causes (mathematical and metaphysical) on the incomprehensible by the two great mathematicians who in reality they didn't have a subject of discussion: d'Alembert and Euler had their own notions of solution - from modern point of view classic in J. d'Alembert's works and 'weak' (or 'generalized') in these of L. Euler.

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Article Crépel, Pierre; Pepe, Luigi (2008) D'Alembert, i Lumi, l'Europa: D'Alembert, les Lumières, l'Europe. Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche (p. 115). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ferraro, Giovanni
Jouve, Guillaume
Jia, Xiaoyong
Patergnani, Elisa
Jouve, Guillame
Mariano Giaquinta
Journals
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques
Historia Mathematica
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Publishers
Plus, Pisa University Press
Leo S. Olschki
La Città del Sole
Birkhäuser
Concepts
Mathematics
Calculus
Differential equations
Correspondence and corresponding
Statistics
Infinitesimals
People
Lagrange, Joseph Louis
Euler, Leonhard
Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
Laplace, Pierre Simon
Bernoulli, Johann
Bernoulli, Daniel
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century
17th century
Places
France
Italy
Germany
Europe
Berlin (Germany)
Paris (France)
Institutions
École Polytechnique, Paris
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