Richard Askey
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Richard A. Askey (born June 4, 1933) is an American mathematician, known for his expertise in the area of special functions. The Askey-Wilson polynomials are an important schematic in organising the theory of special polynomials (his work with James A. Wilson).
Askey earned a B.A. at Washington University in 1955, an M.A. at Harvard University in 1956, and a Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1961.[1] After working as an instructor at Washington University (1958–1961) and University of Chicago (1961–1963), he joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1963 as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics. He became a full professor at Wisconsin in 1968, and since 2003 has been a professor emeritus. Askey is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was a Guggenheim Fellow, 1969–1970.
[edit] Works
Special functions, by George E. Andrews, Richard Askey, and Ranjan Roy, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications, The University Press, Cambridge, 1999.
