Download or read book The Special Functions and Their Approximations written by Yudell L. Luke and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and self-contained and unified treatment of many mathematical functions which arise in applied problems, as well as the attendant mathematical theory for their approximations. many common features of the Bessel functions, Legendre functions, incomplete gamma functions, confluent hypergeometric functions, as well as of otherw, can be derived. Hitherto, many of the material upon which the volumes are based has been available only in papers scattered throughout the literature.