NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions
"The NIST Handbook is a handsome product, with large pages and large type. The book is quite heavy; for convenience, one might be inclined to place it on a stand, as with an unabridged dictionary. The book contains numerous graphics, almost all in color. References and cross references to books and articles abound. Applications to both the mathematical and physical sciences are indicated. The NIST Handbook is indeed a monumental achievement, and the many, many individuals who participated in its creation and dissemination are to be congratulated and thanked."Philip J. Davis for SIAM News"An outstanding group of editors, associate editors and validators updated and extended the classic NBS Handbook of Mathematical Functions, edited by Abramowitz and Stegun. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cambridge University Press are to be congratulated for publishing a treasury. It is eminently readable with clear, sharp, high-contrast text, mathematical notation and colored graphs and figures, The entire book is contained in a CD-ROM with a searchable PDF. From Leibnitz to Hilbert, from  modern science and engineering to other disparate fields of study, functions are ubiquitous , fascinating and beautiful objects of human ingenuity. A prerequisite to their use is to understand their properties, and this handbook provides a direct and concise solution. It contains an extensive bibliography, a list of notations, and an index. The general format for each group of functions includes notation, properties, applications, computation and references. People who work with functions will delight in this handbook."Barry Masters for Optics & Photonics News"... an excellent product."J. H. Davenport, Computing Reviews"This is like trying to review the bible: it would be eccentric to argue that it is not a "thoroughly good thing". It's the modern successor to the wonderful Handbook of Mathematical Functions, edited by Abramowitz and Stegun, and maybe that's enough said. In summary, this splendid work doesn't really need the approbation of a mere reviewer. And now I'm off to look up my first unidentified integral to see if it's a standard form."Martin Crowder, International Statistical Review"The editors, associate editors, chapter authors, validators, and NIST staff members deserve our thanks for their very successful and valuable product."Robert E. O'Malley, SIAM Review"NHMF and the online version DLMF are a treasure for the mathematical and scientific communities, one that will be used and valued for decades. The organization, presentation, and general appearance are excellent. This beautiful book reflects credit on everyone and every organization involved; NIST; the National Science Foundation for funding; those who organized the project and obtained the funding; the advisors, editors, authors, and validators; and Cambridge University Press. Above all, NHMF and DLMF are a monument to the efforts of the editor-in-chief, author of one chapter of A&S; and author or coauthor of five chapters of this successor volume, Frank Olver."Richard Beals, Notices of the AMS