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In 1751, Fagnano applied to become a member of the Berlin academy of sciences. It was on that occasion that Euler studied his works, which gave him new ideas. He arrived in 1753 at the following generalization of formula (6.1):
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Popescu-Pampu, P. (2016). Euler and the Addition of Lemniscatic Integrals. In: What is the Genus?. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2162. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42312-8_7
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