NOTES AND DEFERENCES.
101. No. V. of this paper gives a correction of a formula (18) in the paper 8,
On Lagrange’s Theorem.
102. I refer to this paper in my “ Note on Riemann’s paper ‘Versuch einer
allgemeinen Auffassung der Integration und Differentiation,’ Werke, pp. 331—344.”
Math. Ann. t. xvi. (1880), pp. 81—82, for the sake of pointing out the connexion
which it has with this paper of Riemann’s (contained, as the Editors remark, in a
MS. of his student time dated 14 Jan. 1847, and probably never intended for
publication): the idea is in fact the same, Riemann considered a function of x + h
expanded in a doubly infinite, necessarily divergent, series of integer or fractional powers
of h, according to an assigned law: and he thence deduces a theory of fractional
differentiation.
114. This Memoir on Steiner’s extension of Malfatti’s problem is referred to by
Clebsch in the paper “ Anwendung der elliptischen Functionen auf ein Problem der
Geometrie des Raumes,” Crelle, t. mi. (1857), pp. 292—308: it is there shown that my
fundamental equations, p. 67, are the algebraical integrals of a system of equations
dy dz n dz dx_ dx dy_
VF + y^ _U ’ VZ' + yA' ’ ’
the integrals of which become comparable when the quartic functions under the square
roots differ only by constant factors; and expressing that this is so, he obtains the
relations which I assumed to exist between the coefficients a, ¡3, 7, 8, «See., under which
the equations admit of solution by quadratics only. And he is thereby led to reduce
the problem, not to the foregoing system of fundamental equations, but to other
equations connecting themselves with the usual form of the Addition-theorem; and
with a view thereto to develope a new solution of the Problem.
115, 116. The theory is further developed in my Memoir “On the Porism of the
in-and-circumscribed Polygon,” Phil. Trans, t. CLL, for 1861.
C. II.
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