George D. Birkhoff, Rudolph E. Langer, The Boundary Problems and Developments Associated with a System of Ordinary Linear Differential Equations of the First Order, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Apr., 1923), pp. 51-128
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