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Thursday, July 2. 2009

To all of my fellow geeks who enjoy mathematics:

About a year ago, my father died of cancer. Before his death he was working on equations that apparently were the solution to calculating the exact arc length of an ellipse, and I believe he actually did it. I have put a page up that has all of his work and background information about this...

I'm really not a math geek, and I haven't solved a calculus equation since college. I am hoping someone can review my father's work and perhaps figure out if he really did solve what I understand to be considered an unsolvable equation by modern math.

Thanks!

Posted by John Coggeshall at 17:46 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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calculate the lenght of an arc of ellipse

in Google is a good initial point:

Look at

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/412271.html

#1 Oscar (Homepage) on 2009-08-03 15:01 (Reply)

Oscar:

I will have to look at it more closely, but on initial inspection that answer is not the algebraic solution to the exact arc length. My father's work was to an exact answer and algebraic / trig solution.

#1.1 John Coggeshall (Homepage) on 2009-08-04 03:36 (Reply)

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