Timeline for PDF of $R$ given that $R^2 = C^2 + S^2$, with $C = \sum_{j=1}^{n}{\cos \theta_j}$ and $S = \sum_{j=1}^{n}{\sin \theta_j}$ for a small $n$

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Dec 2, 2019 at 14:07	history	edited	Carlo Beenakker	CC BY-SA 4.0	deleted 67 characters in body
Dec 1, 2019 at 17:29	comment	added	Felipe Augusto de Figueiredo		Dear Carlo, dank u wel!
Dec 1, 2019 at 17:27	vote	accept	Felipe Augusto de Figueiredo
Dec 1, 2019 at 17:27
Dec 1, 2019 at 12:18	comment	added	Carlo Beenakker		@FelipeAugustodeFigueiredo --- yes, I have added the large-$n$ limit, with a reference to the 1905 paper by J.C. Kluyver where this problem was treated in much detail.
Dec 1, 2019 at 12:17	history	edited	Carlo Beenakker	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 83 characters in body
Dec 1, 2019 at 12:09	history	edited	Carlo Beenakker	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 83 characters in body
Dec 1, 2019 at 11:59	history	edited	Carlo Beenakker	CC BY-SA 4.0	deleted 100 characters in body
Dec 1, 2019 at 11:25	history	edited	Carlo Beenakker	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 419 characters in body
Dec 1, 2019 at 8:23	history	edited	Carlo Beenakker	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 114 characters in body
Dec 1, 2019 at 5:47	comment	added	Felipe Augusto de Figueiredo		Is it possible, based on this integral, to show that it tends to the Maxwell distribution when $n$ is large?
Nov 30, 2019 at 23:17	history	edited	Carlo Beenakker	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 135 characters in body
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Nov 30, 2019 at 23:06	history	answered	Carlo Beenakker	CC BY-SA 4.0