Etymology

Green's theorem

Today it means: A generalization of the fundamental theorem of calculus to the two-dimensional plane, which states that given two scalar fields P and Q and a simply connected region R, the area integral of derivatives of the fields equals the line integral of the fields, or Full definition →

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Named after the mathematician George Green.

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