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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Book Review

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Book Information:

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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Review Information:

Reviewer: Jet Wimp
Affiliation: Drexel University
Email: jwimp@mcs.drexel.edu
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (2000), 499-510
Published electronically: June 27, 2000
Review copyright: © Copyright 2000 American Mathematical Society