This classic text is known to and used by thousands of mathematicians and students of mathematics throughout the world. It gives an introduction to the general theory of infinite processes and of analytic functions together with an account of the principal transcendental functions.

E T Whittaker was an early 20th century Mathematician. He is credited with pioneering research in special functions. Whittaker was a member of the Royal Society. He was professor of Astronomy at the University of Dublin and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. A Course of Modern Analysis was the first book in English to present the theory of functions of a c...(展开全部)

This book is an introductory text in functional analysis. Unlike many modern treatments, it begins with the particular and works its way to the more general. From the reviews: "This book is an excellent text for a first graduate course in functional analysis...Many interesting and important applications are included...It includes an abundance of exercises, and is written in the...(展开全部)

FOUNDATIONS OFMODERN ANALYSISEnlarged and Corrected PrintingJ. DIEUDONNEThis book is the first volume of a treatise which will eventually consist offour volumes. It is also an enlarged and corrected printing, essentiallywithout changes, of my Foundations of Modern Analysis, published in1960. Many readers, colleagues, and friends have urged me to write a sequelto that book, and ...(展开全部)

查尔斯·弗朗西斯·霍凯特（Charles Francis Hockett,1916--2000），美国语言学家。1916年1月17日出生于美国俄亥俄州哥伦布市。1932年进入俄亥俄州立大学，硕士毕业后进入耶鲁大学攻读博士学位，在萨丕尔等著名学者的指导下进修人类学和语言学，同时经常到哥伦比亚大学参加鲍厄斯主持的美洲印第安语讨论会，1939年获人类学博士学位。1940-1942年期间，他继续从事学术研究，进行语言调查，并执教于密歇根大学，帮助弗里斯做研究工作。1942年应征入伍，在军队里做语言工作，编写供军队使用的汉语教材和词典。从1946年起，霍凯特一直在康奈尔大学教语言学和人类学，并曾主持基础汉语教学，为美国培养了一代语言学家和人类学家。1964年他曾担任美国语言学会会长。1973年被选入美国文理科学院，1974年又被选入国家科学院。1986年他曾来...(展开全部)