Nastasi, Pietro; Tazzioli, Rossana Problems of method in Levi-Civita’s contributions to hydrodynamics. (English) Zbl 1152.01010 Rev. Hist. Math. 12, No. 1, 81-118 (2006). This paper is on Levi-Civita’s influential contributions to hydrodynamics. His wake hypothesis led to a solution of D’Alembert’s paradox and enabled him to develop his analytical method. Levi-Civita also published on progressive permanent waves in a canal with a horizontal bed. The author discusses Levi-Civita’s work in this area including the work of his students. In Padua and after 1918 in Rome, Levi-Civita attracted students from many countries: Cisotti, Struik, Dubreil-Jacotin, Alexander Weinstein, Luigi Sante da Rios, Giuseppe Picciati and others. The author gives some special attention to the relation between Levi-Civita’s work and complex analysis and the then new theory of integral equations. Reviewer: Teun Koetsier (Amsterdam) Cited in 3 Documents MSC: 01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century 01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies 76-03 History of fluid mechanics Keywords:Levi-Civita; history of hydrodynamics PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{P. Nastasi} and \textit{R. Tazzioli}, Rev. Hist. Math. 12, No. 1, 81--118 (2006; Zbl 1152.01010)