Salvatore Pincherle: The pioneer of the Mellin-Barnes integrals

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 153, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 331-342

  Mainardi, Francesco ^a   Pagnini, Gianni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Generalized hypergeometric functions; Linear difference equations; Linear differential equations; Meijer G functions; Mellin Barnes integrals

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LINEAR EQUATIONS;

MELLIN-BARNES INTEGRALS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037382185     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0427(02)00609-X     Document Type: Article

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