Gauss, Landen, Ramanujan, the Arithmetic-Geometric Mean, Ellipses, π, and the Ladies Diary

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Publication:3816266

DOI10.2307/2323302zbMath0665.26007OpenAlexW1993407479WikidataQ29544184 ScholiaQ29544184MaRDI QIDQ3816266

Bruce C. Berndt, Gert Almkvist

Publication date: 1988

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

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/8e3c462f5eb920fe178985f159cdfee815b59c52




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