A two-part volume containing a comprehensive description of the theory of entire and meromorphic functions of one complex variable and its applications, and a detailed review of recent investigations concerning the function-theoretical pecularities of polyanalytic functions (boundary behaviour, value distributions, degeneration, uniqueness etc).

A two-part volume containing a comprehensive description of the theory of entire and meromorphic functions of one complex variable and its applications, and a detailed review of recent investigations concerning the function-theoretical pecularities of polyanalytic functions (boundary behaviour, value distributions, degeneration, uniqueness etc).

Designed to give a contemporary international survey of research activities in approximation theory and special functions, this book brings together the work of approximation theorists from North America, Western Europe, Asia, Russia, the Ukraine, and several other former Soviet countries. Contents include: results dealing with q-hypergeometric functions, differencehypergeometric functions and basic hypergeometric series with Schur function argument; the theory of orthogonal polynomials and expansions, including generalizations of Szego type asymptotics and connections with Jacobi matrices;...