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Book Information:
Author:
L. V. Ovsiannikov
Title:
Group analysis of differential equations
Additional book information:
Academic Press, New York, 1982, xvi + 416 pp., $54.00. ISBN 0-1253-1801-1.
Sophus Lie’s 1884 differential invariant paper, Lie Groups: History, Frontiers and Applications, Vol. III, Math Sci Press, Brookline, Mass., 1976. In part a translation of “On differential invariants” [Über Differentialinvarianten] by S. Lie [Math. Ann. 24 (1884), 537–578]; Translated from the German by M. Ackerman; Comments and additional material by Robert Hermann. MR 0490975
2. A. Kumpera and D. C. Spencer, Lie equations, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, N.J., 1972.
Garrett Birkhoff, Analytical groups, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (1938), no. 1, 61–101. MR 1501934, DOI 10.1090/S0002-9947-1938-1501934-4
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- Sophus Lie's 1884 differential invariant paper, Math. Sci. Press, Brookline, Mass., 1976. MR 0490975
- 2.
- A. Kumpera and D. C. Spencer, Lie equations, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, N.J., 1972.
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- G. Birkhoff, Analytical groups, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (1938), 61-101. MR 1501934
Review Information:
Reviewer:
Robert Hermann
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
8 (1983), 508-510
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15143-1