Re: hypergeometric function
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- Subject: [mg12907] Re: [mg12857] hypergeometric function
- From: BobHanlon at aol.com
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 03:44:29 -0400
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
The notation used is the traditional notation for the Pochhammer symbol.
See on-line help for Pochhammer and evaluate this sum:
Sum[Pochhammer[a, k]*Pochhammer[b, k]/Pochhammer[c, k] * z^k/k!,
{k, 0, Infinity}]
Bob Hanlon
In a message dated 6/17/98 1:53:39 AM, Klamser at t-online.de wrote:
>in the Online-Help of Mathematica or in the Mathematica Book under
>Page #750 I can find the hypergeometric function Hypergeometric2F1[a,
>b, c, z]. I do not understand the definition: