Richard Askey
Richard Allen Askey (born June 4, 1933 in St. Louis , Missouri - † October 9, 2019 ) was an American mathematician who studied analysis .
Askey studied at Washington University (Bachelor's degree 1953), Harvard University (Master's degree in 1956) and Princeton University , where he received his doctorate from Salomon Bochner in 1961 (Mean Convergence of Orthogonal Series and Conjugate Series) . He was then from 1958 to 1961 an instructor at Washington University, 1961 to 1963 at the University of Chicago and from 1963 assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , where he received a full professorship in 1968 and from 2003 was professor emeritus.
Askey mainly dealt with special functions (introduction of the Askey-Wilson polynomials with James A. Wilson) and the publication of the notebooks by Ramanujan (a very extensive project with Bruce Berndt , among others , which should also supplement the evidence missing from Ramanujan) . He was also interested in math education.
From 1969 to 1970 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1993 and of the National Academy of Sciences from 1999 . He was a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and, from 1996, the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
Fonts
- with George Andrews , Ranjan Roy: Special functions , Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-521-62321-9 (English; series Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications 71)
Web links
- Professor Richard A. Askey - Homepage at the University of Wisconsin
Individual evidence
- ↑ In Memoriam: Richard Askey. UW-Madison Department of Mathematics, accessed October 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Richard Askey in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
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| SURNAME | Askey, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Askey, Richard Allen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Louis , Missouri , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 9, 2019 |