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  2. Legendre chi function - Wikipedia

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    As such, it resembles the Dirichlet series for the polylogarithm, and, indeed, is trivially expressible in terms of the polylogarithm as = [⁡ ⁡ ()]. The Legendre chi function appears as the discrete Fourier transform , with respect to the order ν, of the Hurwitz zeta function , and also of the Euler polynomials , with the explicit ...

  3. Euler's identity - Wikipedia

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    The number e (e = 2.71828...), also known as Euler's number, which occurs widely in mathematical analysis The number i , the imaginary unit such that i 2 = − 1 {\displaystyle i^{2}=-1} The equation is often given in the form of an expression set equal to zero, which is common practice in several areas of mathematics.

  4. Semi-major and semi-minor axes - Wikipedia

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    The semi-major axis is sometimes used in astronomy as the primary-to-secondary distance when the mass ratio of the primary to the secondary is significantly large (); thus, the orbital parameters of the planets are given in heliocentric terms. The difference between the primocentric and "absolute" orbits may best be illustrated by looking at ...

  5. Transcendental number - Wikipedia

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    In other words, the n th digit of this number is 1 only if n is one of the numbers 1! = 1, 2! = 2, 3! = 6, 4! = 24, etc. Liouville showed that this number belongs to a class of transcendental numbers that can be more closely approximated by rational numbers than can any irrational algebraic number, and this class of numbers is called the ...

  6. Apéry's constant - Wikipedia

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    ζ(3) was named Apéry's constant after the French mathematician Roger Apéry, who proved in 1978 that it is an irrational number. [4] This result is known as Apéry's theorem . The original proof is complex and hard to grasp, [ 5 ] and simpler proofs were found later.

  7. Lambert's cosine law - Wikipedia

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    Example: A surface with a luminance of say 100 cd/m 2 (= 100 nits, typical PC monitor) will, if it is a perfect Lambert emitter, have a luminous emittance of 100π lm/m 2. If its area is 0.1 m 2 (~19" monitor) then the total light emitted, or luminous flux, would thus be 31.4 lm.

  8. Angular momentum of light - Wikipedia

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    However, another expression of the angular momentum naturally arising from Noether’s theorem is the following one, in which there are two separate terms that may be associated with SAM and OAM (): [1] = + =,, (()) = +, where is the vector potential of the magnetic field, and the i-superscripted symbols denote the cartesian components of the ...