References for Joseph Liouville

Version for printing
  1. R Taton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

  1. J Lützen, Joseph Liouville 1809-1882: Master of Pure and Applied Mathematics (New York- Berlin, 1990).

Articles:

  1. B Belhoste and J Lützen, Joseph Liouville et le Collège de France, Rev. Histoire Sci. 37 (3-4) (1984), 255-304.
  2. C Berg and J Lützen, J Liouville's unpublished work on an integral operator in potential theory : A historical and mathematical analysis, Exposition. Math. 8 (2) (1990), 97-136.
  3. G Chrystal, Joseph Liouville, Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh 14 (1888), 83-91.
  4. J Lützen, Joseph Liouville's Contribution to the Theory of Integral Equations, Historia Mathematica 9 (1982), 371-391.
  5. J Lützen, Joseph Liouville's Work on the Figures of Equilibrium of a Rotating Mass of fluid, Rev. Hist. Sci. 30 (1984), 113-166.
  6. J Lützen, The birth of spectral theory - Joseph Liouville's contributions, in Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians (Tokyo, 1991), 1651-1663.
  7. J Lützen, Joseph Liouville und die nach ihm benannten Sätze, NTM Schr. Geschichte Natur. Tech. Medizin 26 (2) (1989), 5-17.
  8. J Lützen, The geometrization of analytical mechanics : a pioneering contribution by Joseph Liouville (ca. 1850), in The history of modern mathematics II (Boston, MA, 1989), 77-97.
  9. J Lützen, Sturm and Liouville's work on ordinary linear differential equations : The emergence of Sturm - Liouville theory, Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 29 (4) (1984), 309-376.
  10. E Neuenschwander, The unpublished papers of Joseph Liouville in Bordeaux, Historia Math. 16 (4) (1989), 334-342.
  11. E Neuenschwander, Joseph Liouville (1809-1882) : correspondance inédite et documents biographiques provenant de différentes archives parisiennes, Boll. Storia Sci. Mat. 4 (2) (1984), 55-132.
  12. J Peiffer, Joseph Liouville (1809-1882) : ses contributions à la théorie des fonctions d'une variable complexe, Rev. Hist. Sci. 36 (1983), 209-248.
  13. D Stander, Makers of modern mathematics : Joseph Liouville, Bull. Inst. Math. Appl. 24 (3-4) (1988), 59-60.
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