Book recommendation on the history of PDE/ODE?

Question

I would like to know something like what's the first PDE etc.

Could you recommend book on the history of PDE/ODE?

thanks.

Answer 1

You can refer to these articles:

1) http://www.jstor.org/pss/2298771

2) www.johnsasser.com/pdf/article13.pdf

3) http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/index/34-XX.html#HIST

Bit of surfing yourself for things should help you out!

Answer 2

SIAM (The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) has collected some oral interviews and other materials that have some bearing on the history of ordinary and partial differential equations:

http://history.siam.org/

There is also a lot of material on this topic that is related to more specialized historical studies:

History of Hydraulics by Hunter Rouse and Simon Ince

A History of the Theory of Elasticity and of the Strength of Materials ... by Isaac Todhunter

and work on the Euler equations and the Navier-Stokes equations.

Answer 3

If I were you I would start by looking for similar threads.. ;)

Could you recommend some classic textbooks on ordinary/partial differential equation?

Good 1st PDE book for self study