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After Jacobi’s surprising discovery in 1834 that the rotating triaxial ellipsoids of fluid could be in equilibrium, Liouville began a study of the properties of these figures and of the well-known equilibrium ellipsoids of revolution found by Maclaurin. He published six papers on the question, but only a small fraction of his most far-reaching investigations on the stability of the figures of equilibrium, made during the last months of 1842, appeared in print.
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Lützen, J. (1990). Figures of Equilibrium of a Rotating Mass of Fluid. In: Joseph Liouville 1809–1882. Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, vol 15. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0989-8_11
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