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p. Recent years have seen a great deal of progress in the field of
orthogonal polynomials, a subject closely related to
many important branches of analysis. Orthogonal polynomials are connected with trigonometric, hypergeometric, Bessel, and elliptic functions, are related to the theory of continued fractions and to important problems of interpolation and mechanical quadrature, and are of occasional occurrence in the theories of differential and integral equations. In addition, they fuish comparatively general and instructive illustrations of certain situations in the theory of orthogonal systems. Recently, some of these polynomials have been shown to be of significance in quantum mechanics and in mathematical statistics.
many important branches of analysis. Orthogonal polynomials are connected with trigonometric, hypergeometric, Bessel, and elliptic functions, are related to the theory of continued fractions and to important problems of interpolation and mechanical quadrature, and are of occasional occurrence in the theories of differential and integral equations. In addition, they fuish comparatively general and instructive illustrations of certain situations in the theory of orthogonal systems. Recently, some of these polynomials have been shown to be of significance in quantum mechanics and in mathematical statistics.