References
- This topic is a main theme of my Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800–1840: From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics Birkhäuser Basel 3 Berlin: Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1990), which is not cited here. I have recently rehearsed the topic specifically in ‘The ingénieur savant, 1800–1830: a neglected figure in the history of French mathematics and science’, Science in Context, 6 (1993), 405–33.