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Authors: George E. Andrews, Richard Askey and Ranjan Roy
Title: Special functions
Additional book information: Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications, The University Press, Cambridge, 1999, xvi + 664 pp., ISBN 0-521-62321-9, $69.95$, hardcover

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Goh, W.M.Y., and Wimp, J., The zero distribution of the Tricomi-Carlitz polynomials, Computers Math. Appl. 33, 119-127 (1997). MR 1442066

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Lebedev, N.N., Special functions and their applications, tr. by Richard A. Silverman, Prentice-Hall, NJ (1965). MR 0174795

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Redmond, Don, Number theory, an introduction, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York (1996). MR 1384299

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Shapiro, H. N., A micronote on a functional equation, Amer. Math. Monthly 80, 1041 (1973). MR 0326216

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Andrews, George E., The theory of partitions, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, Vol. 2, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Reading, MA (1976). MR 0557013

[apo]

Apostol, Tom M., Introduction to analytic number theory, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, New York (1976). MR 0434929

[bai]

Bailey, W. N., Generalized hypergeometric series, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1935). MR 0185155

[bor]

Borwein, Jonathan M., and Borwein, Peter B., Pi and the AGM, A study in analytic number theory and computational complexity, Canadian Mathematical Society Series of Monographs and Advanced Texts, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York (1987).

[die]

Dieudonné, Jean, Special functions and linear representations of Lie groups, CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics # 42, American Mathematical Society, Providence, R.I. (1980). MR 0557540

[dra]

Drazin, P. G. and Johnson, R. S., Solitons: an introduction, Cambridge Texts in Applied Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1989). MR 0985322

[erd]

Erdelyi, A., et al., Higher transcendental functions, McGraw-Hill, New York (1953). MR 15:419i

[gas]

Gasper, George, and Rahman, Mizan, Basic hypergeometric series, with a foreword by Richard Askey, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, 35, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1990). MR 91df:33034

[goh]

Goh, W.M.Y., and Wimp, J., The zero distribution of the Tricomi-Carlitz polynomials, Computers Math. Appl. 33, 119-127 (1997). MR 1442066

[leb]

Lebedev, N.N., Special functions and their applications, tr. by Richard A. Silverman, Prentice-Hall, NJ (1965). MR 0174795

[pet]

Petkovsek, Marko, Wilf, Herbert S., and Zeilberger, Doron, ``A=B'', with a foreword by Donald E. Knuth, A K Peters, Ltd., Wellesley, MA (1996). MR 1379802

[red]

Redmond, Don, Number theory, an introduction, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York (1996). MR 1384299

[sha]

Shapiro, H. N., A micronote on a functional equation, Amer. Math. Monthly 80, 1041 (1973). MR 0326216

[sla]

Slater, Lucy Joan, Generalized hypergeometric functions, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1966). MR 0201688

[van]

Van Assche, Walter, Asymptotics for orthogonal polynomials, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1265, Springer-Verlag, New York (1987). MR 0903848