Generating Functions in Engineering and the Applied Sciences
Beschreibung:
Ramalingam Shanmugam, Ph.D., is an Honorary Professor in the School of Health Administration at Texas State University, San Marcos. He is the Editor-in-Chief of four journals including Advances in Life Sciences; Global Journal of Research and Review; Journal of Obesity and Metabolism; and the International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences. He has published more than 200 research articles and 120 conference papers. Dr. Shanmugam's research interests include theoretical and computational statistics, number theory, operationsresearch, biostatistics, decision making, and epidemiology.
Generating function (GF) is a mathematical technique to concisely represent a known ordered sequence into a simple continuous algebraic function in dummy variable(s). This Second Edition introduces commonly encountered generating functions (GFs) in engineering and applied sciences, such as ordinary GF (OGF), exponential GF (EGF), as also Dirichlet GF (DGF), Lambert GF (LGF), Logarithmic GF (LogGF), Hurwitz GF (HGF), Mittag-Lefler GF (MLGF), etc. This book is intended mainly for beginners in applied science and engineering fields to help them understand single-variable GFs and illustrate how to apply them in various practical problems. Specifically, the book discusses probability GFs (PGF), moment and cumulant GFs (MGF, CGF), mean deviation GFs (MDGF), survival function GFs (SFGF), rising and falling factorial GFs, factorial moment, and inverse factorial moment GFs. Applications of GFs in algebra, analysis of algorithms, bioinformatics, combinatorics, economics, finance, genomics, geometry, graph theory, management, number theory, polymer chemistry, reliability, statistics and structural engineering have been added to this new edition. This book is written in such a way that readers who do not have prior knowledge of the topic can easily follow through the chapters and apply the lessons learned in their respective disciplines.