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Book Information:
Authors:
H. M. Srivastava and
H. L. Manocha
Title:
A treatise on generating functions
Additional book information:
Halsted Press (Ellis Horwood Limited, Chichester), John Wiley and Sons, New York, Chichester, Brisbane, and Toronto, 1984, 569 pp., $89.95. ISBN 0-470-20010-3.
Arthur Erdélyi, Wilhelm Magnus, Fritz Oberhettinger, and Francesco G. Tricomi, Higher transcendental functions. Vol. III, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York-Toronto-London, 1955. Based, in part, on notes left by Harry Bateman. MR 0066496
2. P. S. de Laplace, Mémoire sur les suites, Mém. Math. Phys. Acad. Roy. Sci. (Paris), année 1779 (1782) = Oeuvres 10, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1894, pp. 1-89.
3. A. M. Legendre, Recherches sur l'attraction des sphéroïdes homogènes, Mém. Math. Phys. Prés, à l'Acad. Roy. Sci. (Paris) par divers savans 10 (1785), 411-434.
Elna B. McBride, Obtaining generating functions, Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy, Vol. 21, Springer-Verlag, New York-Heidelberg, 1971. MR 0279355
Earl D. Rainville, Special functions, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1960. MR 0107725
- 1.
- A. Erdélyi, W. Magnus, F. Oberhettinger, and F. G. Tricomi, Higher transcendental functions, vol. III, McGraw-Hill, New York, Toronto and London, 1954. MR 0066496
- 2.
- P. S. de Laplace, Mémoire sur les suites, Mém. Math. Phys. Acad. Roy. Sci. (Paris), année 1779 (1782) = Oeuvres 10, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1894, pp. 1-89.
- 3.
- A. M. Legendre, Recherches sur l'attraction des sphéroïdes homogènes, Mém. Math. Phys. Prés, à l'Acad. Roy. Sci. (Paris) par divers savans 10 (1785), 411-434.
- 4.
- Elna B. McBride, Obtaining generating functions, Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy 21 (1971). MR 279355
- 5.
- E. D. Rainville, Special functions, Macmillan, New York, 1960 (reprint: Chelsea Publ. Co., Bronx, New York, 1971). MR 107725
Review Information:
Reviewer:
Per W. Karlsson
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
19 (1988), 346-348
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1988-15669-8
