The subjects treated in this book have been especially chosen to represent a bridge connecting the content of a first course on the elementary theory of analyti

This book gives an introduction to the classical, well-known special functions which play a role in mathematical physics, especially in boundary value problems.

An overview of special functions, focusing on the hypergeometric functions and the associated hypergeometric series.

Special functions and orthogonal polynomials in particular have been around for centuries. Can you imagine mathematics without trigonometric functions, the expo

Special functions arise in many problems of pure and applied mathematics, mathematical statistics, physics, and engineering. This book provides an up-to-date ov