Questions tagged [cauchy]
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Where can I read Cauchy's terrible poems?
I hope that the slightly abrasive title is forgivable, as the judgement on this poetry is not mine, but Hans Freudenthal's. Here is the background: in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, there is ...
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Did Cauchy ever deal with double or triple integrals?
Did Cauchy ever deal with double or triple integrals? Did he give rigorous proofs of multivariable integral calculus like what came to be called Stokes's theorem, the divergence theorem, etc.?
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Did Cauchy forget or lose mathematical papers aside from Abel's and Galois's?
Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a prolific writer, his writings range widely in mathematics and mathematical physics. As a professor at École Polytechnique he came in contact and reviewed Abel's and Galois' ...
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Is Kline right that Cauchy believed that continuous functions must be differentiable?
Morris Kline, in Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Time, writes in chapter 40 (The Installation of Rigor in Analysis), "Though Bolzano and Cauchy had rigorized (somewhat) the notions of ...
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Why did Lagrange say that Cauchy should learn literature before mathematics?
From Bruno Belhoste's Augustin-Louis Cauchy — A Biography:
Even if we should doubt the remark Valson attributed to Lagrange, it is likely that he did advise Louis-François about to his son's ...
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