* Preface * Introduction by R. Askey * Hypergeometric and generalized
hypergeometric functions in one and many variables * Classical hypergeometric
function identities - functional theoretic and combinatorial interpretation.
q-basic series * Evaluation of hypergeometric functions at special values -
\Gamma - factors and period relations * Reducible cases of hypergeometric
equations * Applications of the Lagrange inversion formula * Pade
approximations to hypergeometric functions as hypergeometric polynomials *
Special hypergeometric functions - polylogarithms and other functions *
Diophantine approximations and measures of irrationality * Hypergeometric
function evaluation and calculation - physics and applied mathematics *
Appendix by W. Gosper. Hypergeometric identities * References
