Special Functions

by Richard Askey, Ranjan Roy, George E. Andrews, et al.

Book Overview

Special functions, natural generalizations of the elementary functions, have been studied for centuries. The greatest mathematicians, among them Euler, Gauss, Legendre, Eisenstein, Riemann, and Ramanujan, have laid the foundations for this beautiful and useful area of mathematics. This treatise presents an overview of special functions, focusing primarily on hypergeometric functions and the associated hypergeometric series, including Bessel functions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521789885
• ISBN13: 9780521789882
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 682 Pages
• Weight: 2.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"