SYMMETRY AND SEPARATION OF VARIABLES by Willard Miller ( 9780521177399 )

Item Details

Title:

SYMMETRY AND SEPARATION OF VARIABLES

By:

Willard Miller

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£53.99

Our price:

£47.24

Discount:

12.5% off

You save:

£6.75

ISBN 10:

0521177391

ISBN 13:

9780521177399

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

3 March, 2011

Series:

Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications 4

Pages:

318

Description:

This 1977 volume is concerned with the group-theoretic approach to special functions.

Synopsis:

Originally published in 1977, this volume is concerned with the relationship between symmetries of a linear second-order partial differential equation of mathematical physics, the coordinate systems in which the equation admits solutions via separation of variables, and the properties of the special functions that arise in this manner. Some group-theoretic twists in the ancient method of separation of variables that can be used to provide a foundation for much of special function theory are shown. In particular, it is shown explicitly that all special functions that arise via separation of variables in the equations of mathematical physics can be studied using group theory.

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

BEAUTIFUL WORLDS, AND OTHER POEMS CLASS (PB)

RADAR AND SONAR (HB)

RADAR AND SONAR (PB)

SYMMETRIES AND OVERDETERMINED SYSTEMS OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (HB)

SYMMETRIES AND OVERDETERMINED SYSTEMS OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (PB)

SYMMETRY AND SEPARATION OF VARIABLES