Download or read book Special Functions 2000: Current Perspective and Future Directions written by Joaquin Bustoz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advanced Study Institute brought together researchers in the main areas of special functions and applications to present recent developments in the theory, review the accomplishments of past decades, and chart directions for future research. Some of the topics covered are orthogonal polynomials and special functions in one and several variables, asymptotic, continued fractions, applications to number theory, combinatorics and mathematical physics, integrable systems, harmonic analysis and quantum groups, Painleve classification.