Abstract
IT is indeed curious that, after a lapse of nearly forty years, during which the tables of Tallqwist, first published at Helsingfors in 1906, have remained the only example of tabulation of the associated Legendre functions, two new sets of tables should appear almost simultaneously from entirely different sources. The recent appearance of this volume, actually published in Cairo in 1941, coincided almost exactly with that of another, bearing the same title, prepared by the Mathematical Tables Project in New York in 1945. Fortune has, however, decreed that both sets of tables shall prove to be valuable additions to the world of mathematical literature, for not only are they both more comprehensive than Tallqwist's collection, but in different ways, and much information is to be found in each which is not in the other.
Tables of Legendre Associated Functions
By Zaki Mursi. (Fouad I University: Faculty of Science, No. 4.) Pp. viii + 286. (Cairo: E. and R. Schindler, 1941.)
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PEARCE, J. Tables of Legendre Associated Functions. Nature 157, 785 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157785a0
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