Titlebook: Joseph Liouville 1809–1882; Master of Pure and A Jesper Lützen Book 1990 Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1990 Algebra.Applied Mathematics.Fin

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Figures of Equilibrium of a Rotating Mass of Fluidperties of these figures and of the well-known equilibrium ellipsoids of revolution found by Maclaurin. He published six papers on the question, but only a small fraction of his most far-reaching investigations on the stability of the figures of equilibrium, made during the last months of 1842, appeared in print.

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Geometryy of numbers and with the applications of infinitesimal analysis to astronomy and mathematical physics. However, in these works, one often finds results of interest to geometry, results that even directly concern the theory of surfaces, and views which, having given rise to new researches, have contributed to the progress of the science.

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Differentiation of Arbitrary Order his name is still attached, in that the modern definition of differentiation of arbitrary order is called the Riemann-Liouville definition. He published 9 papers on the subject during the period from 1832 to 1837 and one late comer in 1855.

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Potential Theoryany of the central ideas and theorems concerning integral operators, in particular, their spectral theory, including the Rayleigh-Ritz method for determining eigenvalues. As background material, I shall first sketch the state of affairs in potential theory around 1840 and discuss Liouville’s published contributions.

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Transcendental Numbersated results. In this chapter, I shall analyze its historical background, Liouville’s gradual approach to the question, and the methods he used. For a more comprehensive treatment of the history of transcendental numbers, see [Waldschmidt 1983].