I have been influenced by the book entitled Concrete Mathematics by Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth and Oren Patashnik, 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1994. The problems and  methods discussed in it are, to put it briefly, Eulerian in character. I believe the theory of Jacobian elliptic functions and theta functions can be connected with the contents in this book, because Jacobi's methods too were essentially Eulerian. In fact, theta functions are discussed, albeit very briefly, in this book.

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