Re: QUestion About an Itegral

"BrandonFromFlorida" <BrandonShw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 30, 7:05 am, "BrandonFromFlorida" <Brandon...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank you very much. This is most enlightening. Although I have
taken courses in Calculus and Differential Equations, I am unfamiliar
with these functions or with the Rothstein-Trager Theorem. What would
be the name of a book or course which explained these things?

Bumping this up, because I'm really hoping for an answer. Thanks in
advance for any light you can shed on this last question quoted above.

The functions involved, of which Robert gave a list, are most often
called "special functions". As a graduate student, I had a two-part course
using the classic text _A Course of Modern Analysis_, Whittaker and Watson,
4th ed., Cambridge U. P., 1927. (No, I'm not _that_ old! Not even close.)

I had mentioned the exponential integral. But Whittaker and Watson mention
that in only one place, merely as part of an exercise. You might do better
by going to MathWorld and looking at the references given there for a
particular function. For example, looking at the references in
<http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ExponentialIntegral.html>, you'll notice that
many are texts about mathematical physics.

HTH,
David
.

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