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The equation that is now known as the Korteweg—de Vries equation first appeared in the doctoral dissertation of D. J. Korteweg’s student Gustav de Vries, which was defended on 1 December 1894 at the Amsterdam University [1]. That the centenary of the equation is nevertheless celebrated in 1995, instead of in 1994, has a good reason: the work of Korteweg and de Vries became internationally known through a joint paper they published in May 1895 [2].
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Kox, A.J. (1995). Korteweg, de Vries, and Dutch Science at the Turn of the Century. In: Hazewinkel, M., Capel, H.W., de Jager, E.M. (eds) KdV ’95. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0017-5_5
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