A Gaussian Tale for the Classroom: Lemniscates, Arithmetic-Geometric Means, and More

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-31298-5_9zbMath1490.97001OpenAlexW2997250144MaRDI QIDQ5016679

Janet Heine Barnett

Publication date: 14 December 2021

Published in: Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/ Société canadienne d’histoire et de philosophie des mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31298-5_9

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic integralslemniscatearithmetic-geometric meanmini-primary source projects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Elliptic functions and integrals (33E05) History in mathematics education (97A30) Analytic geometry, vector algebra (educational aspects) (97G70)

Cites Work

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