gamma function — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. A meromorphic function which generalizes the notion of factorial to complex numbers and has singularities at the nonpositive integers; any of certain generalizations or analogues of said function, such as extend the factorial to domains other than the complex numbers.

   Oberbegriffe

   function

   Unterbegriffe

   digamma functionincomplete gamma functionpolygamma functiontrigamma function

   Beispiele

   Chapter 3 deals with the p-adic gamma function.

   Weitere Beispiele (2)

   2002, M. Aslam Chaudhry, Syed M. Zubair, On a Class of Incomplete Gamma Functions with Applications, Chapman & Hall / CRC Press, page 2, In particular, the exponential, circular, and hyperbolic functions are rational combinations of gamma functions.

   We select one mathematical object, the gamma function, and show how it grew in concept and in content from the time of Euler to the recent mathematical treatise of Bourbaki, and how, in this growth, it partook of the general development of mathematics over the past two and a quarter centuries.