Publisher's Synopsis
This encyclopaedic book describes the developments of thelast years in the area of asymptotic methods for linearODEs and systems in the real and complex domain. Basicallyall main results and methods are given. Almost every knownasymptotic formula is referred to.Written in a style readable for the nonspecialist in thearea, the book is a guide to the extensive literaturedeveloped recently in the field. It is a much neededexposition and a comprehensive source of information forstudentsand researchers in mathematics as well as inmechanics and physics.