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The Role of Differential Parameters in Beltrami's Work

1997

Abstract Differential parameters play a relevant role in Beltrami's mathematical work. They are employed in different contexts, in order to express some well-known results in a new way and to extend potential theory and the theory of elasticity to a Riemannian manifold. The author aims to show that differential parameters enabled Beltrami to solve many mathematical questions and that they constitute the first step toward the conception of tensor calculus. Les parametres differentiels jouent un role important dans l'oeuvre mathematique de Beltrami. Ils sont employes en contextes differents, pour exprimer dans une maniere nouvelle quelques resultats bien-connus et pour generaliser la theorie …