Elliptic Functions: An Elementary Text-book for Students of Mathematics

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J. Wiley & Sons, 1890 - Mathematics - 118 pages
 

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Page 1 - English mathematician, published his celebrated theorem showing that any arc of a hyperbola may be measured by two arcs of an ellipse, an important element of the theory of Elliptic Functions, but then an isolated result.
Page 41 - Taking for 0, — ф, etc., not always the least angle given by the tables, but that which is nearest to ф. BISECTED AMPLITUDES. We have identically - = 2.-r = 2F\k,am - ; etc. Therefore и = F(k, am u) = 2"F\k, am -j = 2" . am- , (« = limit,) 7/ am - being determined by repeated applications of eq.
Page 5 - J. dx which are called elliptic integrals of the first, second, and third order.

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