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Mayer’s Method of Solving the Equation dz = P dx + Q dy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
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It has been pointed out that Mayer's method of solving the differential equation
is quite general and only requires one integration, whereas the other general methods require two, or even thee, integrations. The reason for this is rather obscure in most text-books ; and the proof of the validity of the method rests on an existence theorem which leads to a solution of an apparently different form. I shall prove here that the two forms are identical.
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page no 105 note * See Underwood, F., Math. Gazette, XVII (1933), 105–111.Google Scholar
† See Bieberbach, L., Differntialgleichungen, 3rd edition, Berlin (1930). 278–9Google Scholar; Poussin, de la Vallée, Cours d’Analyse Infinitésimale, II, 6th edition, Paris (1928), 299.Google Scholar
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