The hypergeometric function - a biographical sketch

DOI10.1007/BF03024173MaRDI QIDQ1079710zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. George

Publication date 1985

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03024173

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical hypergeometric functions, ({}_2F_1) (33C05) History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of special functions (33-03)

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