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Examples include the gamma, Bessel, and hypergeometric functions. Integral Transform: A mathematical operator that converts a function into another function (often in a different domain) through ...

Tables of the Higher Mathematical Functions. Computed and compiled under the direction of Harold T. Davis. Vol. 1. (Published as a Contribution of the Waterman Institute for Scientific Research ...

“You’ve had this whole new class of mathematical functions—these theoretical things that had appeared in string theory,” Mogull says. “And we’re saying, ‘Look, this is tangible.

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