Generating Functions and Rodrigues's Formulas for Special Functions Used in Quantum Mechanics
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A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.
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Contributed by: S. M. Blinder (March 2011)
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S. M. Blinder, Chapter 12, Guide to Essential Math, Amsterdam: Elsevier Academic Press, 2008.
H. Wilf, Generatingfunctionology, 2nd ed., Boston: Academic Press, 1994.