Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
In but a few cases are solutions of equations of the type
known, and even in the simplest cases the most general of the known solutions suffers from the disadvantage of being in a symbolic form. The equations to be studied in the present paper are those which can be derived from
by a change in the independent variable. This equation is the one which most naturally claims the attention of the investigator, after the equation of wave-motion
has been disposed of.
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page 246 note * Whittaker and Watson, chap. xvi.