Theory and Applications of Special Functions

Mizan Rahman, His Mathematics and Literary Writings.- On the Completeness of Sets of q-Bessel Functions J?(3)(x; q).- a-Gaussian Polynomials and Finite Rogers-Ramanujan Identities.- On a Generalized Gamma Convolution Related to the q-Calculus.- Ramanujan and Cranks.- The Saalschütz Chain Reactions and Multiple q-Series Transformations.- Painlevé Equations and Associated Polynomials.- Zeta Functions of Heisenberg Graphs over Finite Rings.- q-Analogues of Some Multivariable Biorthogonal Polynomials.- Some Systems of Multivariable Orthogonal Askey-Wilson Polynomials.- Continuous Hahn Functions as Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients.- New Proofs of Some q-Series Results.- The Little q-Jacobi Functions of Complex Order.- A Second Addition Formula for Continuous q-Ultraspherical Polynomials.- A Bilateral Series Involving Basic Hypergeometric Functions.- The Hilbert Space Asymptotics of a Class of Orthonormal Polynomials on a Bounded Interval.- Abel-Rothe Type Generalizations of Jacobi's Triple Product Identity.- Summable Sums of Hypergeometric Series.- Askey-Wilson Functions and Quantum Groups.- An Analog of the Cauchy-Hadamard Formula for Expansions in q-Polynomials.- Strong Nonnegative Linearization of Orthogonal Polynomials.- Remarks on Some Basic Hypergeometric Series.