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Orthogonal Polynomials
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Colloquium Publications
1939; 432 pp; softcover
Volume: 23
Reprint/Revision History:
fourth edition 1975; tenth printing 1998; eleventh printing 2003 with corrections
ISBN-10: 0-8218-1023-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-1023-1
List Price: US$51 Member Price: US$40.80
Order Code: COLL/23

This first detailed systematic treatment of orthogonal polynomials continues as a bestseller in the Colloquium Series.

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"This is the first detailed systematic treatment of ... (a) the asymptotic behaviour of orthogonal polynomials, by various methods, with applications, in particular, to the `classical' polynomials of Legendre, Jacobi, Laguerre and Hermite; (b) a detailed study of expansions in series of orthogonal polynomials, regarding convergence and summability; (c) a detailed study of orthogonal polynomials in the complex domain; (d) a study of the zeros of orthogonal polynomials, particularly of the classical ones, based upon an extension of Sturm's theorem for differential equations. The book presents many new results; many results already known are presented in generalized or more precise form, with new simplified proofs."

-- Mathematical Reviews

• Preliminaries
• Definition of orthogonal polynomials; principal examples
• General properties of orthogonal polynomials
• Jacobi polynomials
• Laguerre and Hermite polynomials
• Zeros of orthogonal polynomials
• Inequalities
• Asymptotic properties of the classical polynomials
• Expansion problems associated with the classical polynomials
• Representation of positive functions
• Polynomials orthogonal on the unit circle
• Asymptotic properties of general orthogonal polynomials
• Expansion problems associated with general orthogonal polynomials
• Interpolation