Mathematics is playing an ever more important role in the physical and biological sciences, provoking a blurring of boundaries between scientific disciplines an
The theory of partitions, founded by Euler, has led in a natural way to the idea of basic hypergeometric series, also known as Eulerian series. These series wer
The subject of this book is the higher transcendental function known as the confluent hypergeometric function. In the last two decades this function has taken o