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Zbl 0848.05002
Petkovšek, Marko; Wilf, Herbert S.; Zeilberger, Doron
$A=B$. With foreword by Donald E. Knuth. (English)
[B] Wellesley, MA: A. K. Peters. xii, 212 p. \$ 39.00 (1996). ISBN 1-56881-063-6

This book is an essential resource for anyone who ever encounters binomial coefficient identities, for anyone who is interested in how computers are being used to discover and prove mathematical identities, and for anyone who simply enjoys a well-written book that presents interesting, cutting edge mathematics in an accessible style. Wilf and Zeilberger have been at the forefront of a group of researchers who have found and implemented algorithmic approaches to the study of identities for hypergeometric and basic hypergeometric series. In this book, they detail where to find the packages that implement these algorithms in either Maple or Mathematica, they give examples of and instructions in how to use these packages, and they explain the motivation and theory behind the algorithms. The specific algorithms that are described are Sister Celine's Method, an algorithm from the 1940's that underlies most of the current research; Gosper's Algorithm, the first of the powerful proof techniques to be implemented with a computer algebra package; Zeilberger's Algorithm which extends and generalizes Gosper's approach; the WZ Method which is guaranteed to provide a proof certificate for any correct identity for hypergeometric series and which can be used to determine whether or not a ``closed form'' exists for any given hypergeometric series. The book is also sprinkled with examples, exercises, and elaborations on the ideas that come into play.
[D.M.Bressoud (St.Paul)]

MSC 2000:: *05A10 Combinatorial functions
05A30 q-calculus and related topics
33C20 Generalized hypergeometric series
68R05 Combinatorics in connection with computer science
33D15 Basic hypergeometric functions of one variable
39A70 Difference operators

Keywords: binomial coefficient identities; hypergeometric series; algorithms; Maple; Mathematica; Sister Celine's Method; Gosper's Algorithm; Zeilberger's Algorithm; WZ Method

Cited in: Zbl 1250.11023 Zbl 1232.11023 Zbl 1241.11016 Zbl 1226.11027 Zbl 1102.33017 Zbl 1136.40301 Zbl 1087.33011 Zbl 0987.33009 Zbl 0945.65015 Zbl 0903.33008

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