Re: Digital-age counterpart for Abramowitz/Stegun?

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From: Simon Tortike
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 20:46

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harper@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (John Harper) writes:

>Abramowitz & Stegun IS "digital-age". Read its preface. Funnily enough, it
>doesn't totally supersede Jahnke & Emde, the pre-computer equivalent. J&E 
>has more and better altitude charts for analytic functions, and is quicker 
>to use when you want to see if a given differential equation has solutions 
>involving Bessel functions. Both are (or were) published by Dover Books.

>John Harper Mathematics Dept. Victoria University Wellington New Zealand

Another useful (but too pricey) book in this category is "An Atlas of
Functions" by J. Spanier and K.B. Oldham, published 1987 by Hemisphere
Pub. Co. in N. America, Springer Verlag elsewhere.  There are no tables or
computer disks, but it discusses all the included functions extensively, with
approximations, uses, coloured diagrams, and pseudo-code programs with 
commentary.
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