Engineering Mathematics, Volume III

Chapter 1

¹ These are taken for granted and not discussed here.

² Georg Frobenius (1849–1917), German mathematician, also made important contributions to the theory of matrices and groups.

³ Adrien Marie Legendre (1752–1833), French mathematician, who became a professor in Paris in 1775 made important contributions to special functions, elliptic integrals, number theory and the calculus of variations. His book Elements de Geometrie (1794) became very famous and had 12 editions in less than 30 years.

⁴ Olinde Rodrigues (1794–1851) was a French mathematician and economist

⁵Named after the German mathematician and astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784–1846) whose paper on Bessel functions dated 1824 appeared in 1826. He started out as an apprentice ...