A Course of Modem Analysis: an Introduction to the General Theory of Infinite Processes and of Analytic Functions; with an Account of the Principal Transcendental Functions

Abstract

WITH the exception of certain corrections and additions, the fourth edition of this comprehensive work differs in no material respect from the third edition published in 1920. “Whittaker and Watson” has entered and held the field as the standard book of reference in English on the applications of analysis to the transcendental functions. This end has been successfully achieved by following the sensible course of explaining the methods of modern analysis in the first part of the book and then proceeding to a detailed discussion of the transcendental functions, unhampered by the necessity of continually proving new theorems for special applications. In this way the authors have succeeded in being rigorous without imposing on the reader the mass of detail which so often tends to make a rigorous demonstration tedious.

A Course of Modem Analysis: an Introduction to the General Theory of Infinite Processes and of Analytic Functions; with an Account of the Principal Transcendental Functions.

By Prof. E. T. Whittaker Prof. G. N. Watson. Fourth edition. Pp. vi + 608. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1927.) 40s. net.