A Course of Modern Analysis

E. T. Whittaker was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. He was awarded the Copley Medal in 1954, 'for his distinguished contributions to both pure and applied mathematics and to theoretical physics'. G. N. Watson was Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Birmingham. He is known, amongst other things, for the 1918 result now known as Watson's lemma and was awarded the De Morgan Medal in 1947. Victor H. Moll is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Tulane University. He co-authored Elliptic Curves (Cambridge, 1997) and was awarded the Weiss Presidential Award in 2017 for his Graduate Teaching. He first received a copy of Whittaker and Watson during his own undergraduate studies at the Universidad Santa Maria in Chile.

'Generations of mathematicians have referred to W&W, as it has been affectionately called, for information that is difficult to locate elsewhere, in particular, on special functions. This improved new edition will enable future generations to access and learn from one of the great classical texts in the mathematical literature. My personal references to W&W are legion; the cover of my worn copy has long been separated from the text because of constant use.' Bruce C. Berndt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Foreword S. J. Patterson; Introduction; Part I. The Process of Analysis: 1. Complex numbers; 2. The theory of convergence; 3. Continuous functions and uniform convergence; 4. The theory of Riemann integration; 5. The fundamental properties of analytic functions – Taylor's, Laurent's and Liouville's theorems; 6. The theory of residues – application to the evaluation of definite integrals; 7. The expansion of functions in infinite series; 8. Asymptotic expansions and summable series; 9. Fourier series and trigonometric series; 10. Linear differential equations; 11. Integral equations; Part II. The Transcendental Functions: 12. The Gamma-function; 13. The zeta-function of Riemann; 14. The hypergeometric function; 15. Legendre functions; 16. The confluent hypergeometric function; 17. Bessel functions; 18. The equations of mathematical physics; 19. Mathieu functions; 20. Elliptic functions. General theorems and the Weierstrassian functions; 21. The theta-functions; 22. The Jacobian elliptic functions; 23. Ellipsoidal harmonics and Lamé's equation; Appendix. The elementary transcendental functions; References; Author index; Subject index.