Problems of Method in Levi-Civita’s Contributions to Hydrodynamics

Pietro Nastasi; Rossana Tazzioli

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques (2006)

  • Volume: 12, Issue: 1, page 117-154
  • ISSN: 1262-022X

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Levi-Civita made important contributions to hydrodynamics: he solved D’Alembert’s paradox, introduced the “wake hypothesis”, deduced the general integral of any plane motion involving a wake, and gave a rigorous proof of the existence of the irrotational wave in a canal of finite depth. In this paper, we investigate Levi-Civita’s results in this area, and connect them to the methods of the new theory of integral equations. Finally, we give some information on Levi-Civita’s students. In our paper, we often use letters written by and addressed to Levi-Civita.

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Nastasi, Pietro, and Tazzioli, Rossana. "Problems of Method in Levi-Civita’s Contributions to Hydrodynamics." Revue d'histoire des mathématiques 12.1 (2006): 117-154. <http://eudml.org/doc/252099>.

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