The DLMF project: a new initiative in classical special functions. (English) Zbl 1097.33500
Dunkl, Charles (ed.) et al., Special functions. Proceedings of the international workshop on special functions – asymptotics, harmonic analysis and mathematical physics, Hong Kong, China, June 21–25, 1999. Singapore: World Scientific (ISBN 981-02-4393-6/hbk). 207-220 (2000).
Summary: NIST (formerly, National Bureau of Standards) has started an ambitious project that aims to produce a successor to Abramowitz and Stegun’s “Handbook of Mathematical Functions”, published by the National Bureau of Standards in 1964 [Zbl 0171.38503] and reprinted by Dover in 1965. Both editions continue to sell briskly and are widely cited in the scientific literature. However, with the many advances in the theory, computation and application of special functions that have occurred since 1960, a new standard reference is badly needed. NIST intends to satisfy this need by providing a Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF) as a free Web site together with an associated book and CD-ROM [Zbl 1198.00002]. The Web site will provide many capabilities that are impossible to provide in print media alone [http://dlmf.nist.gov/].
For the entire collection see [Zbl 0954.00030].
For the entire collection see [Zbl 0954.00030].
MSC:
| 33-00 | General reference works (handbooks, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc.) pertaining to special functions |
| 33F99 | Computational aspects of special functions |
| 65D20 | Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables |
| 65Y15 | Packaged methods for numerical algorithms |
