Wave equation: Where the wave equation come from ? History ? Purpose ?

Brahim ELomari

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Where the wave equation come from ? History ?
What is the purpose of the wave equation ?


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Where the wave equation come from ? History ?
What is the purpose of the wave equation ?


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Just off the top -- from a strong desire to understand the world around us?
 
When I google "wave equation" history, the first thing I got was the Wikipedia entry which said "Historically, the problem of a vibrating string such as that of a musical instrument was studied by Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Leonhard Euler, Daniel Bernoulli, and Joseph-Louis Lagrange. In 1746, d’Alembert discovered the one-dimensional wave equation, and within ten years Euler discovered the three-dimensional wave equation."

That sounds very much like what you asked for initially.
 
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