Andersen in “The suit of the emperor” concludes
“What all people thinks, is not always the truth.”.
**************************************** The subject is the possibility of normal solving the elliptic in First Half Near two centurires ago, in 1828 Legendre, and after, Abel, & Jacobi, studied the elliptic integrals, and its inverse functions and when they saw that it had double (alternate) periodicity, they concluded than it could’nt be expressed like a combination of elementary functions.(In cartesian, the integrand of ellipse’s arc has no periods, and is solved without problems : See paper 2 at my blog) Few years later, Liouville published 7 theorems extending the impossibility of finding elementary primitive functions, to all (?) algebraic integrands [ P(x)/√Q(x) being P of any degree and Q of 3 or 4 degrees and NO DOUBLE ROOT](*) The definition of an elliptic integral is the “one having like integrand the squared root of a third or fourth degree polynomial, unless they have a double root”. Because with a double root it is not any more an elliptic.(There is a second degree factor under radical, after coming out from radical the factor of the double root) The double root is precisely the SOLUTION for all elliptic integrand. Because we Can transform all polynomial to a product of two trinomials of segond degree (or one of first if it was a third degree integrand). One factor can be forced to have a double root: Solved problem! We have only to find a variable change with two freedom degrees Möbius transformation, has what we need. (ax + b)
With this variable change, z= (cx + d ) we can solve all polynomials. Elliptic integrands, are not any more an impossible integral. In all text books, speaking about elliptic integrals, one speaks only of tables, numerical methods, series developments, and saying that they are not integrable… but never say that with a suitable variable change all elliptic integrals can be normaly solved. ( Unless perhaps ellipse’s arc (+) in polar coordinates) Two hundred years with hundreds of excellent matematicians followed Liouville. All give the impression that it has been established: People who negue this impossibility of integrating are “illumilates”with no respect for MAESTROS.