Timeline for Origin of the terminology "trace operator" related to boundary-value problems for PDEs
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| Oct 17, 2017 at 15:09 | comment | added | Jules Lamers | Now crossposted to History of Science and Mathematics, see hsm.stackexchange.com/q/6603/4703 | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 5:28 | history | edited | Michael Bächtold |
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| Oct 11, 2017 at 0:06 | comment | added | Paul Bryan | Not sure the historical order of terminology, but for example in do Carmo's book on curves and surfaces, the trace of a parametrised curve is it's image. One "traces" the curve in space to get the image as one might trace a picture onto a new sheet of paper. Then @CarloBeenakker comment extends that notion to tracing a function along the boundary which is itself the trace in (do Carmo's sense) of the inclusion of the boundary into the domain. | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 15:19 | history | edited | Jules Lamers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 10, 2017 at 14:49 | comment | added | J.J. Green | Tracing being a primitive pre-computer method of image reproduction :-) | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 14:42 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | The trace operator restricts a function to the boundary of the domain, so one can say that it "traces the boundary of the function". | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 14:17 | history | asked | Jules Lamers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |