This book contains contributions from the proceedings at The Fields Institute workshop on Special Functions, q-Series and Related Topics that was held in June 1995. The articles cover areas from quantum groups and their representations, multivariate special functions, q-series, and symbolic algebra techniques as well as the traditional areas of single-variable special functions. The book contains both pure and applied topics and reflects recent trends of research in the various areas of special functions.
Special functions and orthogonal polynomials in particular have been around for centuries. Can you imagine mathematics without trigonometric functions, the exponential function or polynomials?
Transmutation, Scattering Theory, and Special Functions
This text systematically introduces special functions and explores their properties and applications in engineering and science.
This book is intended for researchers and graduate students in mathematics and in mathematical physics, in particular to those interested in applications of special functions.