Legendre's singular modulus

DOI10.1080/00029890.2022.2094155MaRDI QIDQ5103244zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mark B. Villarino

Publication date 23 September 2022

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.07250

zbMATH Keywords

beta functioncubic latticeelliptic functionselliptic integralsgamma functionLegendre's singular moduluslemniscatependulumRamanujan's elipsethree-body problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

Abstract: We elaborate Legendre's original proof of his discovery of the first singular modulus in the history of mathematics, as well as its appearance in Ramanujan's formula for the arc length of an ellipse with said singular modulus as eccentricity, and its appearance in the three-body choreography of Bernoulli's lemniscate.

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