Spherical Harmonics, Hermite and Other Special Polynomials etc.

[dx]

Whats a good book to learn about these topics?

 

[marcusl]

Lebedev, Special functions & Their Applications (Dover books) covers these thoroughly, includes many worked out problems in the "Applications" chapter accompanying each topic, and is inexpensive!

 

[dx]

looks good, thanks.

 

[ice109]

i don't understand the point of studying these functions anymore considering any good CAS will manipulate them much better than you ever will.

 

[dx]

i don't understand the point of studying these functions anymore considering any good CAS will manipulate them much better than you ever will.

So I guess we should stop teaching children how to add, multiply, and do algebra?

 

[qspeechc]

Don't these usually crop up from the study of differential equations? So a differential equations book might be the correct place? Any decent DE book should cover this stuff I think.