In 1991-1993 our three-volume book "Representation of Lie Groups and Spe cial Functions" was published. When we started to write that book (in 1983), editors of

A standard scheme for a relation between special functions and group representation theory is the following: certain classes of special functions are interprete

This is the first of three major volumes which present a comprehensive treatment of the theory of the main classes of special functions from the point of view o