12 Feb
2013
12 Feb
'13
2:40 p.m.
On 12/02/2013 21:08, Henry Baker wrote:
Are elliptical regions (those conic sections with 2 foci) in the complex plane particularly interesting in the study of "elliptic functions" ??
I don't know enough about elliptic functions to have any insights here.
Nor do I, but I do know (quite likely you do too) that the reason why the functions are called elliptic functions has nothing to do with elliptical regions in the complex plane; it's because some particular ones are useful for calculating the circumference of an ellipse. (More precisely, "elliptic integrals" were first so called for that reason, and "elliptic functions" first arose as inverse functions of elliptic integrals.) -- g