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Cauchy and the Integration Paths

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In Chap. 9, we saw the genus timidly appearing in Abel’s investigations concerning so-called abelian integrals. Let us concentrate now on the definition of such an integral.

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Fig. 12.1

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    The birth of the theory of differential forms in arbitrary dimensions is treated in Chap. 40

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  1. A.L. Cauchy, Mémoire sur les intégrales définies prises entre des limites imaginaires. (De Bure Frères, Paris, 1825). Republished in Œuvres de Cauchy, Série II, vol. XV. pp. 41–89

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  3. R. Vanden Eynde, Historical evolution of the concept of homotopic paths. Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 45 (2), 127–188 (1992)

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Popescu-Pampu, P. (2016). Cauchy and the Integration Paths. In: What is the Genus?. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2162. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42312-8_12

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