Definition:Integrating Factor/Historical Note

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Historical Note on Integrating Factor

The technique of using an integrating factor to solve a differential equation appears to have been invented by Leonhard Paul Euler, in $1734$.

It was also independently invented by both Alexis Fontaine des Bertins and Alexis Claude Clairaut.

Some sources attribute it to Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz.


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