Download or read book Special Functions for Optical Science and Engineering written by Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan and published by SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tutorial text is for those who use special functions in their work or study but are not mathematicians. Traditionally, special functions arise as solutions to certain linear second-order differential equations with variable coefficients. This book introduces these differential equations, their solutions, and their applications in optical science and engineering.