This is a new and enlarged English edition of the book which, under the title "Formeln und Satze fur die Speziellen Funktionen der mathe matischen Physik" appea

This new adaptation of Arfken and Weber's best-selling Mathematical Methods for Physicists, fifth edition, is the most modern collection of mathematical princip

With students of Physics chiefly in mind, we have collected the material on special functions that is most important in mathematical physics and quan tum mechan

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 ne

Special functions enable us to formulate a scientific problem by reduction such that a new, more concrete problem can be attacked within a well-structured frame