Roderick Wong

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Richard Beals

A comprehensive graduate-level introduction to classical and contemporary aspects of special functions.

Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials

There are several subjects in analysis that are frequently used in applied mathematics, theoretical physics and engineering sciences, such as complex variable, ordinary differential equations, special functions, asymptotic methods, integral transforms and distribution theory. However, for graduate students or upper-level undergraduate students who are not going to specialize in these areas, there is no need for them to study these subjects in great depth. Instead, it would probably be more beneficial for them to have an introduction to these topics so that when the need arises, they know what approach to take. With this in mind, this set of lecture notes has been written for a one-semester course. Sufficient details have also been included to make it sufficiently adaptable for self-study. There are in total six chapters with each covering only a few topics. Furthermore, the chapters are all self-contained. The prerequisites for the readers of this book are advanced calculus, a first course in ordinary differential equations and elementary complex variable.

Lecture Notes on Applied Analysis

The subject of special functions is often presented as a collection of disparate results, which are rarely organised in a coherent way. This book answers the need for a different approach to the subject. The authors' main goals are to emphasise general unifying principles coherently and to provide clear motivation, efficient proofs, and original references for all of the principal results. The book covers standard material, but also much more, including chapters on discrete orthogonal polynomials and elliptic functions. The authors show how a very large part of the subject traces back to two equations - the hypergeometric equation and the confluent hypergeometric equation - and describe the various ways in which these equations are canonical and special. Providing ready access to theory and formulas, this book serves as an ideal graduate-level textbook as well as a convenient reference.

A Graduate Text

Special Functions

Chen Hua

This lecture notes volume encompasses four indispensable mini courses delivered at Wuhan University with each course containing the material from five one-hour lectures. Readers are brought up to date with exciting recent developments in the areas of asymptotic analysis, singular perturbations, orthogonal polynomials, and the application of Gevrey asymptotic expansion to holomorphic dynamical systems. The book also features important invited papers presented at the conference. Leading experts in the field cover a diverse range of topics from partial differential equations arising in cancer biology to transonic shock waves. The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: • Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings® (ISTP® / ISI Proceedings) • Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings) • CC Proceedings — Engineering & Physical Sciences Contents:Lectures on Orthogonal Polynomials (M E H Ismail)Gevrey Asymptotics and Applications to Holomorphic Ordinary Differential Equations (J-P Ramis)Spikes for Singularly Perturbed Reaction-Diffusion Systems and Carrier's Problem (M J Ward)Five Lectures on Asymptotic Theory (R S C Wong)A Perturbation Model for the Growth of Type III-V Compound Crystals (C S Bohun et al.)Asymptotic Behaviour of the Trace for Schrödinger Operator on Irregular Domains (H Chen & C Yu)Limitations and Modifications of Black-Scholes Model (L S Jiang & X M Ren)Exact Boundary Controllability of Unsteady Flows in a Network of Open Canals (T T Li)Hierarchy of Partial Differential Equations and Fundamental Solutions Associated with Summable Formal Solutions of a Partial Differential Equations of non Kowalevski Type (M Miyake & K Ichinobe)On the Singularities of Solutions of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in the Complex Domain, II (H Tahara)Identifying Corrosion Boundary by Perturbation Method (Y J Tan & X X Chen)Existence and Stability of Lamellar and Wriggled Lamellar Solutions in the Diblock Copolymer Problem (J C Wei) Readership: Graduate students, researchers, academics and lecturers in mathematical physics. Keywords:Asymptotic Theory;Special Functions;Orthogonal Polynomials;Singular Perturbations;Reaction Diffusion Equations;Gevrey Asymptotics;Stationary Phase Approximation;WKB Method

Differential Equations and Asymptotic Theory in Mathematical Physics

Stephen Smale

This invaluable book contains the collected papers of Stephen Smale. These are divided into eight groups: topology; calculus of variations; dynamics; mechanics; economics; biology, electric circuits and mathematical programming; theory of computation; miscellaneous. In addition, each group contains one or two articles by world leaders on its subject which comment on the influence of Smale's work, and another article by Smale with his own retrospective views.

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