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On the genesis of the concept of covariant differentiation

Luca DellAglio — 1996

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

The purpose of this paper is to reconsider the genesis of the concept of covariant differentiation, which is interpreted as arising out of two traditions running through 19th-century research work. While the first tradition, of an algebraic nature, was responsible for the “algorithmic” emergence of the concept, the second, analytical in character, was essentially concerned with the import of covariant differentiation as a broader kind of differentiation. The methodological contrast that these two...

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