Handbook of mathematical functions with formulas, graphs, and mathematical tables

What Hacker News says

1. 6gvONxR4sf7oMar 2021
   Anyone interested in this might be interested in the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions https://dlmf.nist.gov/

   It’s the digital successor to the Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables by NIST’s predecessor NBS. It’s a classic reference which google scholar says has like 120k citations. It’s colloquially called “Abramowitz and Stegun” after the editors. My pet hypothesis is that it’s so well known partially because “Ab...” tends to put as the very first entry in most of those 120k reference lists.

   It’s a super handy reference for all sorts of various properties of special functions. To say it’s extensive is an understatement.

   Show morethread
2. bigtimberNov 2018
   I can't claim to have it on my bookshelf anymore, but DID have the original hardcopy on my bookshelf for many years back in the 70's and early 80's when I was programming some low-level math libraries and needed to refer to some approximation techniques (e.g., Chebyshev for logarithms).

   EDIT: oops, just realized that you were referring to a later version of the classic. I was referring to Abramowitz and Stegun's Handbook of Mathematical Functions with formulas, graphs, and mathematical tables (1964).

   Show morethread