Group Representations and Special Functions: Examples and Problems prepared by Aleksander Strasburger

Growing specialization and diversification have brought a hor'st of monographs and textbooks on increasingly specialized topics. However, the "tree" of knowledge of mathematics and related fields does not grow only by putting forth new branches. It also happens, quite often in fact, that branches which were thought to be completely disparate are sudden­ ly seen to be related. Further, the kind and level of sophistication of mathematics applied invarious sciences has changed drastically in r...