INDEX 825
ISOLDE, 569
isoperimetric problem, 738
iterated map, 754–763
fixed point, 755
orbit, 755
Jacobi, 211, 331
Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob
biography, 326
Jacobian, 207–210
in probability, 804
Jacobian matrix, 208
Kaluza, 215
Kepler, 89, 97
Kepler’s first law, 582
Kepler’s second law, 582
Kepler’s third law, 583
Kepler, Johannes
biography, 579
kernel
integral transform, 693
Klein-Gordon equation, 747
Koch snowflake, 777
Kronecker delta, 222, 442, 449, 489
Euclidean metric, 466
generalized, 452
Lagrange, 294, 304, 326, 330, 594,
617, 642
biography, 742
Lagrange identity, 572
Lagrange multiplier, 360, 738
Lagrangian, 740–745
interacting particles, 741
Klein-Gordon, 747
particle in EM field, 746
single particle, 741
Lagrangian density, 744–745
electrodynamics, 745
Laguerre polynomials, 230, 679
Laplace, 115, 304, 322, 326, 744
Laplace transform, 712–723
and differential equations, 718–721
Bromwich contour, 722
convolution, 716
cosine, 713
derivative, 717–718
first shift, 714
gamma function, 713
imaginary exponential, 713
integral, 717–718
inverse, 721–723
linearity, 714
Mellin inversion integral, 722
periodic functions, 716
properties, 713–717
second shift, 714
sine, 713
step function, 713
unit function, 713
Laplace’s equation, 411, 542, 546
Bessel functions, 642–654
Cartesian coordinates, 594–603
cylindrical coordinates, 639–656
Legendre polynomials, 610–617
radial equation, 619–622
solution
uniqueness, 592
spherical coordinates, 607–634
uniqueness of solution, 592–593
Laplace, Pierre Simon de
biography, 593
Laplacian, 411
and Dirac delta function, 412
curvilinear coordinates, 435
Green’s function, 708–709
Laurent series
complex, 518–522
Lavoisier, 744
law of addition of velocities, 237
law of large numbers, 809
law of motion
relativistic, 253–254
Legendre, 304, 326
Legendre equation, 575
recursion relation, 611
Legendre functions
second kind, 618
Legendre polynomial, 228, 614, 616
expansion in, 628–630
physical examples, 631–634
generating function, 621
Laplace’s equation, 610–617
multipole expansion, 621
orthogonality, 625
parity, 622
properties, 622–628
recurrence relation, 623
Rodrigues formula, 626