Fourier Series and Orthogonal Polynomials

· The Carus Mathematical Monographs Book 6 · American Mathematical Soc.
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The underlying theme of this monograph is that the fundamental simplicity of the properties of orthogonal functions and the developments in series associated with them makes those functions important areas of study for students of both pure and applied mathematics.

The book starts with Fourier series and goes on to Legendre polynomials and Bessel functions. Jackson considers a variety of boundary value problems using Fourier series and Laplace's equation. Chapter VI is an overview of Pearson frequency functions. Chapters on orthogonal, Jacobi, Hermite, and Laguerre functions follow. The final chapter deals with convergence.

There is a set of exercises and a bibliography. For the reading of most of the book, no specific preparation is required beyond a first course in the calculus. A certain amount of “mathematical maturity” is presupposed or should be acquired in the course of the reading.
The underlying theme of this monograph is that the fundamental simplicity of the properties of orthogonal functions and the developments in series associated with them makes those functions important areas of study for students of both pure and applied mathematics. The book starts with Fourier ...

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