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An Introduction to the Fractional Calculus and Fractional Differential Equations Kenneth S Miller and Bertram Ross John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1993,366 pp., ISBN 0-471-58884-9 (acidfree), hardcover
As scientific research has become increasingly interdisciplinary, a growing need for specialists in one field to understand the problems and work with the concepts of other fields has emerged. New insights can be gained when a problem is approached from the standpoint and with the methods of another discipline. This is the case with fractional calculus.
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