Asymptotic and Computational Analysis: Conference in Honor of Frank W.j. Olver's 65th Birthday [Paperback]

Papers presented at the International Symposium on Asymptotic and Computational Analysis, held June 1989, Winnipeg, Man., sponsored by the Dept. of Applied Mathematics, University of Manitoba and the Canadian Applied Mathematics Society.Preface -- Contributors -- INVITED PAPERS -- Graphs as an Aid to Understanding Special Functions /by R. A. Askey -- Asymptotics of Integals, Series, and Operators /by L. Berg -- Asymptotic Expansions for the Coefficient Functions Associated with Linear Second-Order Differential Equations: The Simple Pole Case /by W. G. C. Boyd -- Landen Transformations of Integrals /by B. C. Carlson -- Accelerating the Convergence of Chebyshev Series /by L. M. Ciasullo and J, A. Cochran -- Practical Methods for the Uniform Asymptotic Evaluation of Oscillating Integrals with Several Coalescing Saddle Points /by J. N. L. Connor -- New Inequalities for the Zeros of Confluent Hypergeometric Functions /by Luigi Gatteschi -- How (Un)stable Are Vandermonde Systems? /by Walter Gautschi -- Singular Point and Exponential Asymptotics /by Floyd B. Hanson -- Uniform Asymptotic Remainders /by D. S. Jones -- Period Tripling and Subharmonic Oscillations in Marangoni Flows in a Cylindrical Liquid Bridge /by Nicholas D. Kazarinoff and Joseph S. Wilkowski -- Positive Solutions for Degenerate and Nondegenerate Elliptic Systems: Existence and Numerical Approximations /by Anthony W. Leung and Guangwei Fan -- Observable Tunneling in Several Dimensions /by R. E. Meyer -- On Stokes' Phenomenon and Converging Factors /by Frank W. J. Olver -- Singularly Perturbed Boundary Value Problems Viewed in the Lienard Plane /by J. D. Allen and R. E. O'Malley, Jr. -- On the Asymptotic Theory of the Orr-Sommerfeld Problem /by W. H. Reid -- Gevrey Property of Formal Solutions in a Parameter /by Yasutaka Sibuya -- A Riccati Approach to the Airy Equation /by Donald R. Smith -- A System of Polynomials Associated with the Chester, Friedman, and Ursell Technique /by K. Soni and R. P. Soni -- RalƒT