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New edition of a true classic in mathematics. Preserves the flavour of the original, updating where appropriate and improving usability.
List of contents
Foreword S. J. Patterson; Introduction; Part I. The Process of Analysis: 1. Complex numbers; 2. The theory of convergence; 3. Continuous functions and uniform convergence; 4. The theory of Riemann integration; 5. The fundamental properties of analytic functions - Taylor's, Laurent's and Liouville's theorems; 6. The theory of residues - application to the evaluation of definite integrals; 7. The expansion of functions in infinite series; 8. Asymptotic expansions and summable series; 9. Fourier series and trigonometric series; 10. Linear differential equations; 11. Integral equations; Part II. The Transcendental Functions: 12. The Gamma-function; 13. The zeta-function of Riemann; 14. The hypergeometric function; 15. Legendre functions; 16. The confluent hypergeometric function; 17. Bessel functions; 18. The equations of mathematical physics; 19. Mathieu functions; 20. Elliptic functions. General theorems and the Weierstrassian functions; 21. The theta-functions; 22. The Jacobian elliptic functions; 23. Ellipsoidal harmonics and Lamé's equation; Appendix. The elementary transcendental functions; References; Author index; Subject index.
About the author
E. T. Whittaker was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. He was awarded the Copley Medal in 1954, 'for his distinguished contributions to both pure and applied mathematics and to theoretical physics'.G. N. Watson was Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Birmingham. He is known, amongst other things, for the 1918 result now known as Watson's lemma and was awarded the De Morgan Medal in 1947.Victor H. Moll is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Tulane University. He co-authored Elliptic Curves (Cambridge, 1997) and was awarded the Weiss Presidential Award in 2017 for his Graduate Teaching. He first received a copy of Whittaker and Watson during his own undergraduate studies at the Universidad Santa Maria in Chile.
Summary
Continuously in print since its appearance in 1902, Whittaker and Watson is one of those rare books known simply by its authorship. This fifth edition preserves the style and content of the fourth, supplementing it with more recent results. The exhaustive bibliography has been revised to be much more usable.
