 
    This volume presents an overview of the area of special functions, focusing primarily on the hypergeometric functions and the associated hypergeometric series.
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`This book will become useful and important, not just as a handy place to locate a reference, but for the many thought-provoking ideas generously provided by the authors.' 
 Foundations of Physics, 16:9 (1986) 
Presents an overview of the area of special functions, focusing on the hypergeometric functions and the associated hypergeometric series, such as the gamma and beta functions, Bessel functions, orthogonal polynomials, the Selberg integral and its applications, spherical harmonics, q-series, partitions, and Bailey chains. Particular emphasis is placed on formulas that can be used in computation.
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