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Preliminary version of Chapter 2 in the book "Encyclopedia of Special functions: The Askey-Bateman Project, Vol. 2: Multivariate special functions", T. H. Koornwinder and J. V. Stokman (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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