Etymology

Carlson symmetric form

Today it means: Any of a canonical set of elliptic integrals to which all others may be reduced. They are a modern alternative to the Legendre forms, and unlike the Legendre forms they are unchanged by the exchange of certain subsets of their arguments. Full definition →

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Named after Bille C. Carlson (1924–2013).

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