Introduction to Special Functions for Applied Mathematics

Daniele Ritelli is an Associate Professor of mathematical analysis at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Bologna in Italy. He teaches ordinary and partial differential equations and special functions in various undergraduate and master's degree courses in statistics and quantitative finance. His research interests concern special functions, generalised trigonometric functions, ordinary differential equations, and applied mathematics.

• Preface 1 Preliminaries 2 Gamma and Beta functions 3 Digamma, Trigamma and Polygamma 4 Digamma, Trigamma and Polygamma 5 A synopsis on second order linear ODE 6 Airy and Hermite functions 7 Bessel functions: part 1 8 Bessel functions: part 2 9 Gauss hypergeometric function 10 Generalized Hypergeometric functions of one variable 11 Applications and exercises Bibliography Analytic Index