The foundational aspects of Gauss's work on the hypergeometric, factorial and digamma functions

DOI10.1007/s00407-007-0004-8zbMath1128.01020OpenAlexW2064685431MaRDI QIDQ2457841

Giovanni Ferraro

Publication date: 23 October 2007

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-007-0004-8

zbMATH Keywords

convergencehypergeometric functiondigamma functionGausslinit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of special functions (33-03)

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