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From: Chip Eastham on 25 May 2010 03:28
NIST has rolled out a new version of this classic, but at $99US the
new Cambridge University Press publication is much more expensive than
my treasured Dover paperback of the original.

The companion website is free (though it seems a bit thin on content
to my untutored eye):

[Digital Library of Mathematical Functions -- NIST]
http://dlmf.nist.gov/

regards, chip
From: Rob Johnson on 25 May 2010 04:18
In article <5b7bd38a-f660-4cdb-8074-a559ca6046de(a)i31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com>,
Chip Eastham <hardmath(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>NIST has rolled out a new version of this classic, but at $99US the
>new Cambridge University Press publication is much more expensive than
>my treasured Dover paperback of the original.
>
>The companion website is free (though it seems a bit thin on content
>to my untutored eye):
>
>[Digital Library of Mathematical Functions -- NIST]
>http://dlmf.nist.gov/

The hardback is $79.20 on Amazon: ISBN-13: 978-0521192255

The paperback is $45.00 on Amazon: ISBN-13: 978-0521140638

Rob Johnson <rob(a)trash.whim.org>
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From: clicliclic on 25 May 2010 08:22

Chip Eastham schrieb:
>
> NIST has rolled out a new version of this classic, but at $99US the
> new Cambridge University Press publication is much more expensive than
> my treasured Dover paperback of the original.
>
> The companion website is free (though it seems a bit thin on content
> to my untutored eye):
>
> [Digital Library of Mathematical Functions -- NIST]
> http://dlmf.nist.gov/
>

In my view, coverage in NIST's on-line DMLF varies noticeably with
function class. The section on elliptic integrals is thorough, for
example, and the corresponding Wikipedia article simply cannot be
compared to it. On the other hand, the Wikipedia articles on
polylogarithms and Meijer G-functions outshine the corresponding DLMF
sections.

Martin.
From: Chip Eastham on 25 May 2010 08:53
On May 25, 8:22 am, cliclic...(a)freenet.de wrote:
> Chip Eastham schrieb:
>
>
>
> > NIST has rolled out a new version of this classic, but at $99US the
> > new Cambridge University Press publication is much more expensive than
> > my treasured Dover paperback of the original.
>
> > The companion website is free (though it seems a bit thin on content
> > to my untutored eye):
>
> > [Digital Library of Mathematical Functions -- NIST]
> >http://dlmf.nist.gov/
>
> In my view, coverage in NIST's on-line DMLF varies noticeably with
> function class. The section on elliptic integrals is thorough, for
> example, and the corresponding Wikipedia article simply cannot be
> compared to it. On the other hand, the Wikipedia articles on
> polylogarithms and Meijer G-functions outshine the corresponding DLMF
> sections.
>
> Martin.

That's a good point, Martin. The NIST material on
generalized hypergeometric and Meijer G functions
were my first check, and I was disappointed to see
it consists mainly of literature references and
has little direct exposition.

It is useful (and has been since Handbook of Math.
Funct. originally came out) to have an authority
on notations and nomenclature. Many of the special
function topics suffer from multiplicity of symbols
and names in the literature.

Of course the display of math symbols on the Web is
its own vexed question.

regards, chip
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