III.87 Spherical Harmonics: Pages 296 -297.

A spherical harmonic of order n and dimension d is the restriction to the sphere Sd-1 of a harmonic polynomial in d variables that is homogeneous of degree n.

 Spherical harmonics link Chebyshev and Legendre polynomials.

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