Abstract
DE MORGAN is reported to have said of the subject of differential equations, that it illustrated the proverb that he who hides knows how to find. This was true enough at a time when the sole aim of the analyst was to “solve” differential equations by reducing them to quadratures, or to construct ingenious puzzles for the benefit of undergraduates. Integration by series was known, of course; but this was regarded as a mean device, useful indeed for purposes of calculation, especially to the physicist, but unworthy of the serious attention of the pure mathematician.
Handbuch der Theorie der linearen Differentialgleichungen.
Von Prof. Dr. Ludwig Schlesinger, Privatdocenten an der Universität zu Berlin. Erster Band. (Leipzig: Teubner, 1895.)
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M., G. Handbuch der Theorie der linearen Differentialgleichungen. Nature 52, 313–314 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052313a0
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