Traité des fonctions elliptiques
work by Legendre
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- In Adrien-Marie Legendre
In his most important work, Traité des fonctions elliptiques (1825–37; “Treatise on Elliptic Functions”), he reduced elliptic integrals to three standard forms now known by his name. He also compiled tables of the values of his elliptic integrals and showed how they can be used to solve important problems in…
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