A CHAPTER IN THE INTEGRAL CALCULUS

IT would be difficult to exaggerate the part which the study of elliptic functions has played in the pure mathematics in the previous century... and this was to be expected; for whether we regard natural science as the application of common sense to the material needs of life, or as the outcome of the need for expansion in the mental world, and whether we consider mathematics as that exact basis without which progress was not permanently possible, or esteem it to be those higher Alps—

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