Timeline for Fourier and Bessel
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| Jun 6, 2012 at 8:27 | history | edited | Papiro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
deleted 21 characters in body
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| May 20, 2012 at 17:40 | vote | accept | Papiro | ||
| May 19, 2012 at 12:25 | answer | added | Jon | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 18, 2012 at 12:37 | history | edited | Chris Godsil |
corrected spelling of a tag
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| May 18, 2012 at 11:46 | comment | added | Henry Cohn | Incidentally, Dutka's article "On the early history of Bessel functions" (dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00376544) does not seem to discuss the naming issue, but goes back even further than Fourier (to the Bernoullis and Euler). | |
| May 18, 2012 at 11:44 | comment | added | Henry Cohn | According to Cajori's history of mathematical notation, Bessel used the letter I and Hansen changed it to J. If this is true, then it almost certainly has nothing to do with the J in Joseph Fourier. | |
| May 18, 2012 at 11:19 | history | asked | Papiro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |