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Wallis entre Hobbes et Newton. La question de l’angle de contact chez les anglais

François Loget (2002)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

Cet article traite d’un aspect de la controverse qui a opposé Hobbes et Wallis dans la deuxième moitié du xviie siècle, celui portant sur l’angle de contact. Wallis a publié deux traités sur l’angle de contact, l’un en 1656, l’autre en 1685. Entre ces deux dates sa position sur la question de l’angle de contact a sensiblement évolué. Durant la même période, il s’est opposé à Hobbes sur divers sujets de mathématiques, dont l’angle de contact. J’étudie les positions des deux protagonistes à travers...

Waring's problem for fields

William Ellison (2013)

Acta Arithmetica

If K is a field, denote by P(K,k) the a ∈ K which are sums of kth powers of elements of K, by P⁺(K,k) the set of a ∈ K which are sums of kth powers of totally positive elements of K. We give some simple conditions for which there exist integers w(K,k) and g(K,k) such that: a ∈ P(K,k) implies that a is the sum of at most w(K,k) kth powers; a ∈ P⁺(K,k) implies that a is the sum of at most g(K,k) totally positive kth powers. We apply the results to characterise functions that are sums of kth powers...

Well-formed dynamics under quasi-static state feedback

J. Rudolph (1995)

Banach Center Publications

Well-formed dynamics are a generalization of classical dynamics, to which they are equivalent by a quasi-static state feedback. In case such a dynamics is flat, i.e., equivalent by an endogenous feedback to a linear controllable dynamics, there exists a Brunovský type canonical form with respect to a quasi-static state feedback.

Wronskien et équations différentielles p-adiques

Jean-Paul Bézivin (2013)

Acta Arithmetica

We prove an inequality linking the growth of a generalized Wronskian of m p-adic power series to the growth of the ordinary Wronskian of these m power series. A consequence is that if the Wronskian of m entire p-adic functions is a non-zero polynomial, then all these functions are polynomials. As an application, we prove that if a linear differential equation with coefficients in ℂₚ[x] has a complete system of solutions meromorphic in all ℂₚ, then all the solutions of the differential equation are...

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