The Theory of Elliptic Integrals: And the Properties of Surfaces of the Second Order (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

James Booth

9780331576948: The Theory of Elliptic Integrals: And the Properties of Surfaces of the Second Order (Classic Reprint)

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The idea of substituting, as a means of investigation, an ideal ellipsoid, having certain relations with the actually revolv ing body, claims the illustrious Legendre as its author. Al though he conducts his own investigations on principles altogether different, be yet seems well aware of the use which might be made of this happy conception. In his Traz't� dc.

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James Booth edited Philip Larkin's early girls'-school stories and poems as "Trouble at Willow Gables and Other Fictions" and has published two critical studies of the poet's work: "Philip Larkin: Writer" (1991) and"Philip Larkin: The Poet's Plight" (2005). He is Literary Adviser to the Philip Larkin Society and Co-Editor of its journal, "About Larkin". He recently retired from the Department of English at the University of Hull, where he had been a colleague of Larkin for seventeen years.

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