RHM, Volume 2 (1996)

Issue no. 1 Table of Contents

Autour d'un mémoire inédit : la contribution d'Hermite au développement de la théorie des fonctions elliptiques [ On an unpublished paper: Hermite's contribution to the development of the theory of elliptic functions ]

Belhoste, Bruno

p. 1-66

From Attraction Theory to Existence Proofs: The Evolution of Potential-Theoretic Methods in the Study of Boundary-Value Problems, 1860-1890

Archibald, Thomas

p. 67-93

La loi galiléenne et la dynamique de Huygens [ Galileo's law of motion and Huygens' dynamics ]

Vilain, Christiane

p. 95-117

L'émergence d'une mathématique du probable au XVIIe siècle [ The emergence of a mathematical theory of the probable in the seventeenth century ]

Meusnier, Norbert

p. 119-147

Issue no. 2 Table of Contents

L'essor des mathématiques appliquées aux États-Unis : l'impact de la seconde guerre mondiale [ The rise of applied mathematics in the United States: the impact of the second world war ]

Dahan Dalmedico, Amy

p. 149-213

On the genesis of the concept of covariant differentiation

Dell’ Aglio, Luca

p. 215-264

Genèse des premiers espaces vectoriels de fonctions [ The inception of the first vector spaces of functions ]

Dorier, Jean-Luc

p. 265-307