Article ID: CBB001202205

On Jacobi’s Transformation Theory of Elliptic Functions (2014)

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The main interpretative challenge set by the Fundamenta Nova Theoriae Functionum Ellipticarum lies in Jacobi’s transformation theory upon which the entire theoretical edifice of the treatise depends. Unfortunately, Jacobi did not convey any indication of how he attained his general formulae for rational transformations of elliptic functions. He limited himself to providing a posteriori verification of the validity of his claims. The aim of this paper is precisely to describe the heuristic path by which in 1827 Jacobi succeeded in finding these transformation formulae. The proposed historical reconstruction will hopefully shed new light upon the emergence in Jacobi’s work of the inversion process of elliptic integrals of the first kind and thus of the elliptic function sinam u itself.

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Authors & Contributors
O'Neil, Sean Thomas
Heller, Henning
Kennett, Carolyn
Pulkkinen, Karoliina
Descamps, Pascal
Oswald, Nicola M. R.
Concepts
Mathematics
Discovery in science
Equations and formulae
Methodology of science; scientific method
Physics
Neptune
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
17th century
Places
United States
Russia
Japan
Europe
China
Paris (France)
Institutions
Observatoire de Paris
Universität Wien
Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin
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