Œuvres complètes d'Augustin Cauchy (ser. 2, vol. 02)
| Authors | Cauchy, Augustin-Louis |
| Publisher | Gauthier-Villars |
| Published | 31 dic 1881 |
| Date | 15 mar 2014 |
| Languages | fra |
| Identifiers | oclc: 1049968013, uri: https://archive.org/details/oeuvresdaugusti202caurich |
| Formats | DJVU |
Description
contains his famous 1819a Sur l'intégration des équations aux différences partielles dupremier ordre à un nombre quelconque de variables (pp. 238-252 // DjVu pp. 254-268)* on the method of characteristics for 1st order PDEs, which contains influences from Ampère;
a.k.a.:
"Cauchy's procedure", "a version of what today is usually called 'the method of characteristics'" (Grattan-Guinness PDF p. 697).
*cited in this lecture by Stefan Hildebrandt