Legendre Funcs: Homework & Equations Explained

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Hi everyone, I am having issues understanding how Legendre functions work especially the recursion and what the subscripts mean in general. I am attempting to make a program to compute the legendre functions Pnm(cos(theta)) and the normalized version and then verifying it by plotting 4 normalized legendre functions.

I don't understand what to do with these equations to get to what I'm attempting to do they just confuse me to no end.

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I'm pretty sure I have to make a function to start with the original equation and then recursively go down. What do the subscripted n/m mean I'm confused on that as well xD
 
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Prove $$\int\limits_0^{\sqrt2/4}\frac{1}{\sqrt{x-x^2}}\arcsin\sqrt{\frac{(x-1)\left(x-1+x\sqrt{9-16x}\right)}{1-2x}} \, \mathrm dx = \frac{\pi^2}{8}.$$ Let $$I = \int\limits_0^{\sqrt 2 / 4}\frac{1}{\sqrt{x-x^2}}\arcsin\sqrt{\frac{(x-1)\left(x-1+x\sqrt{9-16x}\right)}{1-2x}} \, \mathrm dx. \tag{1}$$ The representation integral of ##\arcsin## is $$\arcsin u = \int\limits_{0}^{1} \frac{\mathrm dt}{\sqrt{1-t^2}}, \qquad 0 \leqslant u \leqslant 1.$$ Plugging identity above into ##(1)## with ##u...
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