Gauss-Ostrogradsky Theorem/Historical Note

Historical Note on Gauss-Ostrogradsky Theorem

The Gauss-Ostrogradsky Theorem was first discovered by Joseph Louis Lagrange in $1762$.

It was the later independently rediscovered by Carl Friedrich Gauss in $1813$ during the course of his investigations into electromagnetism.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky, who also gave the first proof of the general theorem, rediscovered it in $1826$.

It was also rediscovered by George Green in $1828$, Siméon-Denis Poisson in $1824$ and Pierre Frédéric Sarrus in $1828$.

Sources

• 1992: George F. Simmons: Calculus Gems ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text {A}.25$: Gauss ($\text {1777}$ – $\text {1855}$)