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by zackmorris 1089 days ago
I wonder if this would help for elliptic integrals. They are notoriously hard to solve, and I keep hitting them in my hobbyist calculations around magnetic fields. This is maybe the best video I've found to make them approachable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJtbeg_PZ30

If anyone has any abstractions that might help, maybe around the nome the author mentioned, I'd love to hear them!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nome_(mathematics)