19.01.10: Math :: Sloane's Integer Sequences ( in Kannada ! )
The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences is a well-known place on the web. It is maintained by the famous mathematician Neil Sloane. Each sequence has a unique ID, for example A000796 gives the digits of pi. The format is Axxxxxx where the x's represent a six-digit number.
I had an excellent opportunity to interact with Sloane over email. We have one thing in common - love for math and languages. I volunteered to translate his homepage in Kannada. Click here for OEIS in Kannada. He has put up my name on his website, in the Acknowledments section. Scroll down to see my name ! Thanks Dr. Sloane !
Category: Math Posted by: bdsatish
03.01.10: Math :: Special Functions Download
A Special Function is a function which is quite different from elementary functions (like the trig functions). Often, it is named after a mathematician who first discovered its properties. For example, the Bessel functions and the Legendre polynomials. There are over a hundred special functions in mathematics. Most of them can be formulated as solutions to differential equations. I first got familiar with them while browsing the Mathematica book.
Nowadays, I use Python for most of my numerical computing. The excellent SciPy library (Scientific Python) includes a package on special functions: "from scipy.special import * ". Two years ago, I had written an introductory article about Special Functions. You can download it for free here: SpecialFunc.pdf [240 KB]. I wrote the article in LaTeX and used pdfTex for typesetting.
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Category: Math Posted by: bdsatish
