Periods And Special Functions In Transcendence

Download or read book Periods And Special Functions In Transcendence written by Tretkoff Paula B and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an introduction to some central results in transcendental number theory with application to periods and special values of modular and hypergeometric functions. It also includes related results on Calabi–Yau manifolds. Most of the material is based on the author's own research and appears for the first time in book form. It is presented with minimal of technical language and no background in number theory is needed. In addition, except the last chapter, all chapters include exercises suitable for graduate students. It is a nice book for graduate students and researchers interested in transcendence.